Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some of the individuals that did a lot of the wrong things with the right intentions.

I love to make music, I love to get tattoos...That's just what I love. If I wasn't getting paid I'd still do it.

The ones that hate you most tend to be the people you know

I'm a big skeptic so I won't just go off what an individual may tell me. I gotta do the research. I'ma get different literature on that one subject and just compare and contrast. I do my own selective studies.

I know my voice is very distinctive because in a room of 100 people, my voice is always picked out.

My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.

I write a lot of my best music in the car, like late night. Three, four in the morning. I'm in the passenger seat, I got my driver, my getaway driver. My Bonnie, I'm Clyde. That's when everything is just settled. In the daytime it's chaotic. Everybody just goin' nowhere fast. In a rush to go nowhere.