You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.

I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.

I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?

Failure is not an option. Success is just a process.

Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you cant fake. Im not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

Charles is Charles. Wale is Wale. It's two separate entities that have nothing to do with each other and probably will never have anything to do with each other and I wish him the best.

Jay-Z's my favorite rapper, but why can't I aspire to be better than him?