When you find the talent, it's always raw, and when you put the talent in the formula, you get the Knocks.

My dad was in the hood, he was a minister, and he would always put churches in the ghetto.

For everybody who lost somebody out there and stuff, when you need therapy, music is the best way.

For me, before I go on stage, it all depends. Might be a girl, might be an edible, might be a verse, might be somebody mixing something in my drink without me knowing - hopefully that won't happen tonight.

I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.

When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better to talk in certain expressions than sing, you know? So I love, I love to rhyme when I want to express certain things.

I decided to do what I do when I was 2 years old. At 2 years old, you know, I heard the sound of a drum playing in the village, and I found my own drum and just picked it up and started playing, the worst song ever written by Wyclef Jean.But it actually started a vibe.