I always knew that I would be some type of public figure, but I never knew that it would be rapping.

I study my competition for at least an hour a day. I get on the internet, look at what they doing, then I look at ways to defeat them.

I don't think you can be a good musician if you just listen to rap, or just the [type of music] you do. You gotta be open to other ideas.

I don't like people being something that they ain't, and we got a lot of that in rap right now.

I'm a real gangster rapper and I'm a rapper. I just think my music takes different directions. I don't think you can pigeon hole me in one genre. I'm probably the most versatile in the game, period.

You have to evolve and change but you're always gonna get that street edge out of my music regardless. That's who I am. That's in me and that ain't gon' never go away.

Everything I do is going to be gangsta rap, street based, street oriented... I'm from Gary, Indiana, and everybody's damn near at the poverty level.