When I'm actually creating music, I try not to listen to the hip-hop records that are going on, because I think, subconsciously, we steal from each other. If you're listening to a record and it's really hot, then you'll be looking for something that feels like that, or that has a version of it.

What we'd consider a positive role model, I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. You'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless. You just speak like a positive role model, and that's just something that you're being conscious of, and you make the decision, "I want to say positive things."

My son is the reason why I write music. He's the reason why everything is different for me.

I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. I think on some level, you'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless.

My past is my shadow, it follows me everywhere I go. Well, all those things come from when I had no other choice. They put my back against the wall. I do what I gotta do.

True hustlers are prepared to get hustled and know when to change positions and move to something different and aren't afraid.

What I do is take the jewelry back to the jeweler and they redo the jewelry with the same gold from the last thing.