"I can't even lie: Sometimes, I be antisocial."
"I overloaded myself with work. I give myself work to do so I don't give myself time to chill and have free time to chill with the family as much."
"No matter where I'm at in life, whether I'm in the music industry, rich, poor, everybody need love in their life. Gangsta or not, everybody need love in their life. You can't act too hard about that."
"Everything I do is me. I don't like taking ideas from people unless they're the G.O.A.T."
"I'm not really rocking with mixtapes no more. EPs and albums - that's it."
"I started off throwing out 'Artist.' I made that my first mixtape. Then, I threw out 'TBA,' which means 'To Be Announced.'"
"I don't wanna learn about more science and math. That's not why I'm going to college."
"My mom is proud of me. My pops proud of me. Everybody keeps motivating me."
"Being self-made means putting yourself in position to help others put themselves in position to be successful."
"I always looked up to people who did more than just rap or focus on music. I'm inspired by the people who put their different talents to use and turned it into something bigger."
"Getting people to like my music was challenging at first. It's hard to get people to like your music. There isn't a simple formula that automatically makes people like you."
"Every time I step on stage an' see all of the lights or hear fans singing the words to my songs ,it's a surreal moment for me."
"I was raised hearing music everywhere I went."
"I'm not really worried about the flashy stuff. I don't got chains and cars. I spend what I need to spend. It doesn't faze me."
"Most of the time, I'm making music. There'll be moments of my life where I feel like I gotta to take a break and come back to the music. It's hard to explain, but you need to get a break from it and then come back to it. It's like you gotta lose something to appreciate it."
"New York sounds like something that I could really listen to. It's like a vibe; it's a hit song. It's a song that you could listen to in five years and still like."
"I used to record songs, like, play the beat from one phone and have another phone recording me and just rap. Moving from that to a studio was like, 'Damn, I never knew I could sound like this.' It was just magic."
"Not everyone's really got the heart to talk about what's going on with their love in their music."
"Some of my songs are turnt up, but that's just 'cause I have to make 'em like that so the clubs can play them."
"Everybody should start listening to love songs."
"One day, walking through the Bronx streets, I just realized that people were stopping me, taking pictures, and noticing me from across the street. I can't even use public transportation anymore, so I kind of stopped going places and started going straight to the studio, going home, and telling people I can't go anywhere anymore."
"I want people to really recognize that this is what I am naturally good at: I'm really good at making music and describing your feelings vicariously through my experiences, through my past and my future. I want people to relate to me in multiple ways and be versatile in my music."
"Hip-hop originated from the Bronx specifically; that means everything. I'm down the block from where hip-hop was born and raised, so I'm glad I am here and I'm able to represent New York the way I am."
"This is the most fun thing in the world to me, making music. Sitting down, I can make songs and not leave the booth, ever, and I love it."
"Growing up in Highbridge was real. Me and all my friends, we never really went to any other places in the Bronx but Highbridge. We always just stayed in Highbridge. It was like territory, to be honest, because Highbridge is like a town."
