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

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

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can't knock it.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ’cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

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

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.

I was raised inside the gang culture.