"I'll never put out some super-dumbed-down music. It'll always have some substance to it."
"A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make… some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you."
"I wanna go to every country on the Earth."
"With me, I record so much that I just get in the zone."
"I stand out. I don't really think I fit in with the 'what rap is' today. I feel like I stand out because I'm talking about me and my homies and stories from my life. I ain't really trying to have you turnt up all day."
"The Netflix thing with Nas is more of a documentary, where we kind of… talk. We go to my neighborhood. You get to see where I'm from and all that. And then, I'm in the studio with Nas."
"The reception on 'P2' has been crazy. Every show on the tour has been sold-out. I didn't think people were gonna catch on to it that quick because I started the tour the same day it came out."
"I'll never give up my style."
"I'm never really trying to focus on one aim."
"Honestly, I want to make more music for the women. I rather have a show full of girls, but I still gotta talk about what I be personally going through, what I've gone through, and what the homies go through."
"You can't turn fame off regardless if you're a platinum-selling artist or you're in jail every week. If you're famous, you're famous. You're in the headlines either way you go."
"Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come."
"My journey is self-made because I came from nothing. It's the best feeling now, because I don't really feel like I owe anybody."
"A big part of what kept me focused on the music was already failing with basketball. I played basketball all of my life. When basketball didn't work, I knew that I had to make it in whatever I decided to do next."
"After the first three or four years of me taking rap seriously, it started to look more promising. I started booking shows and more people were playing my music, so I starting believing this could actually work for me."
"When I'm out of town, I always try to get some readings or some type of new information to where I'm learning more about Islam, just to become the best Muslim I can become."
"I always tell people, I never get writer's block because it's coming straight from my brain, like, real-life experiences. I'm like the news. I'm just reporting it for myself."
"Nobody uses skits at all anymore, so it seems like I use a lot. That's how I grew up on tapes. Biggie tapes, Biggie albums would have skits. The Lox would have skits. Mase would have skits. All the dudes I grew up on in Nineties rap would have skits on their projects, just to make you feel like you were right there with them."
"I feel like I've mastered Dave East. For a long time I was trying to figure out who I was and what sound I wanted to come with."
"I never felt like 'I'm an underground dude' or 'I can only be hot in New York.'"
"I want a son."
"I think R. Kelly is twisted, sick-minded, nasty, perverted - he different. I don't know anybody like R. Kelly."
"I'm not feeling R. Kelly. And I got a daughter, so I'm super not jacking R. Kelly at all."
"I'm never gonna sell my soul or violate myself for no amount of dollars or fame."
"You always hear rappers say they don't write, but they're not really talking about anything."
