I yearn for that livin' large, but mama I ain't done yet/Sit back and watch your son rise, kick back and know your son set

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.

So ahead of my time even when i rhyme about the future I be reminiscing

It's no coincidence that all the greatest rappers - whoever you put in your top five - I guarantee you they a great storyteller.

I never really told anybody that I'm a rapper. I wasn't walking around being like, "Yo, check out my mixtape!" It was more of a secret grind.

There's always people out there that's like, doubting me, you know what I mean? Even though I do embrace the people that embrace me and I'm grateful for them. But I always feel like, man, there's still people out there that's not giving it up. And I feel like I'm doing everything the right way, you know what I mean? I'm really going out of my way to do it the right way. I'm taking very few cheats - very few cheat codes that I'm using.

You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.