I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.

We look so much on color that we forget about the soul.

You can't change where you from. You can't take a person out of their zone and expect them to be somebody else now that they in the record industry. It's gonna take years. Years of travelling. Years of meeting people. Years of seeing the world.

I've got an extra-specific story about Dr. Dre. I saw him when I was 9 years old in Compton - him and Tupac. They were shooting the second 'California Love' video. My pops had seen him and ran back to the house and got me, put me on his neck, and we stood there watching Dre and Pac in a Bentley.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs