I got older - 16, 17 - I was like, "I want to do my own thing." I wasn't seeing eye to eye with my parents. It wasn't what they wanted for me.

If only the people around you know youre an artist, then youre doing something wrong.

Once I got to the age where I was like, "I could just do it by myself," they was like, "Go do it."

I don't beef with people, because I don't be around people. Nobody can't say nothing about me, because ain't nobody know nothing about me.

I went to Paterson Public School No. 6. At the time, it was the worst school in the city. Ain't nobody want their kids to go to School 6; it was that bad. But it was where we lived. If you grow up in a bad area, there are bad things around it.

My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.

Theres a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.