I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.

When composing music, I just start spilling things out and then wait until they take form, you know what I mean, until I see like a common thread or something.

I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't serious because I was smart. I wasn't like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious - like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.

I'll be dammed if I sit around another year, Dreamin' dreams hopin' somehow that they just appear.

We got dreams and we got the right to chase 'em, Look at the nation, that's a crooked smile braces couldn't even straighten.

School is a good place - it ain't for everybody, but I think it's for most people.