I started doing music when I was thirteen; I actually started writing my first rhymes.

The more people I meet, the more cultures I start to embrace, the more people I open myself up to - it's a growing process I'm excited about. But it's also a challenge for me, to be at this level and still be able to connect with somebody who's living that everyday life. At first it was something I struggled with, because everything was moving so fast. I didn't know how to digest it. The best thing I did was go back to the city of Compton, to touch the people who I grew up with and tell them the stories of the people I met around the world.

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

I don't sugarcoat it you'd die from diabetes if these other niggas wrote it

But what love got to do with it when you don't love yourself ?

Colorism is not a good thing, especially when you're Black.

What happened to [Michael Brown] should've never happened. Never. But when we don't have respect for ourselves, how do we expect them to respect us? It starts from within. Don't start with just a rally, don't start from looting - it starts from within.