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.

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

On a mission your worst enemy is idle time.

If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.

In all honesty, based on the direction my life was heading in before I got a real break in the music sh*t, I'm not gonna say I would be one hundred percent in a negative direction, but I know that I would still be in the streets, so if it wasn't for the music bein' my outlet, I'd probably be hustlin', I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to go and get a nine-to-five, I never finished high school or none of that.

We're not the cause, we're the effect.

Killing and gangbanging, that's just wrong.