I don't want people to get the impression that I just got money and now I'm cocky, because I'm not. I'm just a little overly confident.

I would not consider myself to be a quote unquote real New York rapper. I don't even like New York rappers.

I'm from New York and I love New York and I'm always repping New York, but what I represent is something deeper than just being a New York rapper.

I don't care what straight people do, I don't care what gay people do. I don't care what nobody do. That's they business. I just care about what I do. You know what I'm saying?

For me, growing up in Harlem and then migrating down to SoHo and the Lower East Side and chillin' down there and making that my stomping ground... That was a big thing, because I'm from Harlem, and downtown is more artsy and also more open-minded. So I got the best of both worlds.

I wanted to model when I was younger.

New York gave me hell for that 'Purple Swag,' man. They didn't respect me until 'Peso.'