I like to let things breathe.

My grandma always said, "Where there's a will, there's a way." I think it's just naturally in our DNA to be able to survive. We was always taught that: to survive. When you talking about slavery, it's to survive.

No matter how much good things are going on around you, you still have them little negative things that just wanna come out in front. But you bottle them in because you have so many other great things, but they still there.

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

There's a lot of other artists doing things outside of that depth that I enjoy - that music that I can actually have fun to, and not be in depth and think about, then I appreciate that.

I am a sinner....who's probably gonna sin again...Lord forgive me!