Don't respect a lot of rappers, feel I had a harder life

Any artist that's as serious about making music as I am, I'm cool with that. But if you tellin' me, "Man, send me a verse and I'ma send you a verse." No. That's not collaborating. We don't know each other and I'm serous about this music.

When you come up in the slums, having nothin make you humble

You have to be intimate with a person to know that person.

I don't pay attention to sales because it's not about that for me. It's about the music. Music is all I have.

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

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