I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.

Everyone's born confident, and everything's taken away from you.

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliché for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

I'm not going to sit inside of a corporation for 20 years. The time is now. The time is now to express yourself. The time is now to believe in yourself.

I wouldn't even say that I'm a rapper. I'd say I'm more of a messenger.

I think America just needs to get real when it comes to the way our kids speak and communicate. They need to understand what happens in rap.

People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She’s only doing good if your daughter’s doing good. We’re all one family.