A star's the work - the work ethic you put into the business, and the people you excite. We only wanted to excite only a few people at that time, which was some o' the emcees that was hot that was in the game.

You know the steez; you know my whole program. Brothers from the No-Lands, all we want is the G's guns and grams.

When I'm making the music, I feel like everything I throw out has to work. It counts. Because if you don't have people turning they neck all the way around to see what it is, it ain't stick on the wall.

When you grow up in that environment of drugs and guns and people gettin' hurt, it start to reflect your background. And I think, at that time when I was doin' it, that's all I knew. But as I got older in the business, I stopped bein' involved with that, and I started to look at the world. And I said, 'Yo, I wanna start talkin' about everything that goes on in the world. I don't wanna just limit myself to one style'.

I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as an artist.

Growing up in music motivated me. I applied that to my education and it made me a better person.

When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and better.