When I fell in love with hip-hop, there was a terminology at the time called "battling." All that was just battling with other artists, but after Tupac and those incidents when it spilled into the street and turned into a negative situation, battling turned into a beef. A whole new dynamic.

You gotta be smart enough to pick up the information as you go.

Every morning I wake up in a home where Mike Tyson previously laid in the bed and he earned over $500 million his career. It makes me conscious.

Death is a large form of entertainment, probably the largest. Watching death in different ways is entertaining for us, whether it's a high-speed chase and a guy grabs a helicopter and flies away. We know the reality of it is that he wouldn't be physically able to hold onto that helicopter and fall to his death. But it's entertaining to watch.

Every night I talk to God, but he don't say nothing back. I know he protecting me, but I still stay with my gat.

I'm the diamond in the dirt, that ain't been found. I'm the underground king and I ain't been crowned.

I was surrounded by too many people who felt that they had a strong sense of entitlement. That I owed them something.