I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.

You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.

I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.

I'm always gonna have the darker edgy music; it is always in my pocket because it comes so naturally to me.

Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.

This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.