Lean gives you such stomach pain. I'll never forget the time I was at South by Southwest and had to do all these shows, and I sitting on the couch curled up, hours of pain...That wasn't the moment I quit, that was the moment when I said I need more.

We're living or dying. We're already dead, the living dead. So do what you gotta do. Take care of your family, of yourself as a whole, and everything will be alright.

I hate the business part of music. Music is just like the streets. There's loyal and disloyal people, people saying one thing and then don't do it.

Charisma, that's my strong point. My personality was always good, but with music I had to grow into it. I grew into who I am now.

I let my music do the talking. Ain't no TV show gonna help me. Ain't no hit single gon help me sell no records.

I would definitely want a hit record, but I still want the success to be around the album. Only the music can help me.

You already past 21 and you still talking about "I'ma be a rapper." You ain't did one show, niggas ain't seen you on TV. So Kendrick kind of went through the same thing I went through. He just had his mom's house to go to.