The one in front of the gun lives forever

Got in the studio at sixteen, [and] that's when I felt like I wanted to make this a career. I had a passion for it.

I'm listening to a lot of oldies.A lot of Al Green, Marvin Gaye. Luther Vandross... they were some of my icons.

My pops and my mom started playing Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers and all these people, but at the same time, they always had Snoop on right behind it in the same mix.

How am I influencing so many people on this stage rather than influencing the ones that I have back home?

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.

You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.