My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

[ Drizzy] is a good dude , he's been looked out and reached out, and I admire the talent.

K. Dot was a kid who was trying to find himself in music, finding trends, um, bending towards - ready to bend towards what the industry was telling me to do and after you mature at a certain time in your life, you come into your own...your own niche, your own personality, not only as an artist but as a person.

I can be calm and reflective from time to time and other times I can have a burst of energy, that's just me.

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

Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem.