You can't hate/love others without loving/hating yourself first.

Life is about strategy nottragedy. Make the best one.

Sometimes I'll have a whole song done without having a beat - I'll just rap on an instrumental tempo and recreate a whole new song just around the lyrics.

That's how you become successful, man - you gotta stay busy.

When I started getting into West Coast rap - The Game, then I started studying a lot of Tupac Shakur and watching his interviews.

Sometimes it could be just during the day, when I'm riding in the car or on the plane. I'll hear somebody say something that strikes a chord and I write it down and write bars at a time, and then when I'm in the studio I go to those bars and I'm like, "Maybe I should make a song about this."

I keep telling myself that I don't miss you and that I don't love you hoping that someday I will believe it.