A Boogie wit da Hoodie

“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.”

“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.”

“The album 'Hoodie SZN' is about the result of where I come from: it gave me this black heart. And the black heart represents depression.”

“I was trying to make my name just Artist in the beginning, but it was weird at first, because I wasn't an R&B singer or nothing. Not an R&B singer. I didn't do no melodic songs, none of that yet.”

“If you listen to me, it's real stories. It's catchy and something you can relate to.”

“When I was 13, before I got in high school, I was writing mad raps. I didn't really know if it was good or not, so for a year, I just held them. When I got in high school, I started spittin' bars.”

“'A' comes from Artist. And 'Boogie' from the Bronx. 'The Hoodie' part came from just having a hoodie on a lot.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You always gonna feel me. That's my main thing. When I'm speaking in my music, you gotta feel me.”

“Everything I do is me. I don't like taking ideas from people unless they're the G.O.A.T.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I want to be the next legend.”

“I never knew Artist was going to get this big. When I was making it, I put my all into it. But you never know what's going to happen with something you make.”

“I'm not the type of person who makes a lot of songs in a day just to see which one is the best.”

“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.”

“I had to realize that you can't try to get money, support yourself, and grind doing whatchu need to do at the same time. The music is the grind. You really gotta grind. You gotta find your way around. You can't be stuck tryna get there.”

“Me and Thugger could make nine songs in a day and then choose which songs we like the most and think is gonna do something. With other people, it's like, we pick one song, and we hope it's the one.”

“I look at goals, like, what do I want to do and where do I want to see myself. What position to I want to be in going forward.”