People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.

Where I'm from is like 'Hustle Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.

It's hard being a white rapper sometimes! When that happens you just need to battle through.

The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.

My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.

I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.

I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.