I'm raspy, and if I wasn't a smoker, I'd still be raspy. My pops has a raspy voice, and my grandfather.

Too hard for MTV, not black enough for BET, just let me be.

Respect, brotherhood - the family comes first, and everything else falls in place after that.

We're all in the same game, just different levels. Dealing with the same hell, just different devils.

I'm raspy, and if I wasn't a smoker, I'd still be raspy. My pops has a raspy voice, and my grandfather.

I don't follow trends. I just do what I like and what I can.

I ain't a new artist, I'm good in the studio, I don't need somebody to hold my hand in the studio. I don't even really want them all over my album or anything like that.