I just work - however people feel about it, I mean, at the end of the day, if I'm waiting for accolades, I could be waiting all my life, but I don't need that stuff to validate me. I just do what makes me happy.

Oh yeah, the preacher's kid has to be the baddest one. If everyone is smoking weed, we've got to smoke crack. If you're throwing rocks, we've got to throw bigger rocks

To be compared to Will Smith is probably one of the coolest things because that's who I came up admiring.

Even where the game is today, cats don't really focus on necessarily what it is that you're saying so when people say, "Oh, you can't rap," I play into the joke. That's why I'll challenge anybody; anybody rapping, let's go just because I know what the art form is and even when you see these battle rappers in here, they're so skillful. It's actually a skill.

I'm not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I've got some aspects of cool in me, I guess.

Don't worry about my life, worry about why you're worried about my life!

The people who truly love me and loved me before all of this stuff. You can't ever leave them behind.