Kanye took me from a kid who listened to music to a kid who lived music.

Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story.

I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just that. People wanna romanticize it and say, 'There's two sides to it, and it's a beautiful love/hate story of violence and music.' But it's really just a very scummy place where people don't have respect for other people's lives.

I think even before I knew I wanted to be a rapper, I wanted to be an entertainer. I was really into Michael Jackson as a kid.

For me, performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There's nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people.

Sometimes the truth don't rhyme

To me, I feel like basketball and hip-hop have always been kinda conjoined because they're very similar in their competitive nature, you know what I'm sayin'? It's about technical skill, and then there's just God-given talent.