I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

When you're a rapper, just a rapper, you have to kind of settle for whatever comes your way - if a beat is hot, you wanna rap on it, period.

Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.

I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.

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

My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl's grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That's my real dream.

I begged my mom for a beat machine, she spent a crazy amount of money - so there were no more Christmases, no more basketball camps, no more birthday gifts. I always knew that's what I wanted to do.