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.

Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs.

As I've grown as an artist, I've learned that my mission statement is really self-expression. I don't want anybody to classify my music. I want them to say, "This is somebody who's recognizing his true feelings, his true emotions, ideas, thoughts, opinions, and views on the world, all on one record." I want people to recognize that and to take it and apply it to their own lives. You know what I'm saying? The more and more I get out and talk to different people, I realize they appreciate that - me being unapologetic in whatever views and approach I have.

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

Color don't tell if people Black. It's the soul.

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