My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single family home in a middle-class suburb. That doesn't mean I didn't experience hardship, but to me it's not about that, it's about the future and where we are trying to take it.

Always say how you feel because you never know if you'll get the chance again.

I'm very close with my family, so my mom is part of my entourage.

I probably could have gone in depth about a lot of things, but then the album would've been longer. You can't have a short album when you're talking about suicide and cocaine. That's not going to be a short album.

I've got some issues that nobody can see and all of these emotions are pouring out of me I bring them to the light for you it's only right

The three things a guy should want to change about his girl is her last name, address and her viewpoint on men.

Emotion is what hip-hop thrives on. Don't you want your music to have emotion in it? People like to always throw some negative cloud over it. Doesn't even make sense.