My thing is that I don't give no person that much power over my path that I'm walking. Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God.

As gang members, as young dudes in the streets, especially in L.A., we're the effect of a situation. We didn't wake up and create our own mindstate and our environment; we adapted our survival instincts.

When I became a man, and I started to understand the difference between the truth and what your parents are supposed to tell you, there's a difference, know what I mean?

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up.

All the smart money got they bets on me / And all the real niggas wish the best for me

I'm focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I've either read or I plan on getting to.

And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.