It's true that the pain makes people change

In America, we're kind of lazy. But in New York, it's one of those places where you see the majority of people hustling. If you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere.

My whole thing is just to put out positive messages in the music, give people something that can change their lives.

I have to be ahead of myself so I don't just fit into the realm of everybody who sounds like me.

The ones that make it complicated never get congratulated

For even in hell, I still have faith, To one day be free with my father at the gates, But make no mistakes, I'll show you what time takes, To be a success on earth, mixed with all the hate, I stand on my pivot, my life you could not live it For the things that I've seen have been too damn explicit.

Snoop [Dog] is my favorite artist of all time. He's someone I look up to.