For me, being a rap fan and the nostalgia of me being a kid, rappers and guys on the street told me everything to wear. That was it. I didn't necessarily read too many fashion books. Then it got competitive in junior high school. It was moreso about, "You don't got these." Everybody could be fresh, but you don't got these.

I've never been - I don't think I'm, like, a great A&R, by any means. I don't even know production lingo, in all honesty.

I can't force the direction that it's going to go without actually taking the time to make sure it's a great, great quality product. Whether that's for apparel, or whatever the case may be.

As a writer, you have a huge ego. You think that every line means something to everybody the same way it means to you. And that's not true.

At the end of the day I want to wear everything.

When I start a song, it's the first thought. It's the first thought and the first cadence, because that's the most natural.

I don't ever want anyone to hear my music and look at it as just gratuitous violence, or hustling and money-getting - I try to tell the perspective of the woman, the man, the mind, why.