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.

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

Brother Kendrick Lamar: he's not a rapper, he's a writer, he's an author. And if you read between the lines, we'll learn how to love one another. But you can't do that, I said you can't do that, without loving yourself first.

I penetrate the hearts of good kids and criminals

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

I aint a drinker Im a thinker, call it what you want

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