Denzel Curry

“I grew up, like - since I had a lot of brothers, I grew up listening to Hot Boys, Goodie Mob, OutKast, basically all the southern albums, like Silkk the Shocker, Master P, Soulja Slim, and then it just elevated on when I started getting into music and I started listening to Nas and Jay Z and stuff like that and Lupe Fiasco and whatnot.”

“White man get money - stay rich, kids get rich. Black man get money - it's the countdown till, 'When is this brother gonna go broke?' I'm not going broke.”

“Everybody was down on me saying I can't rap, so I wanted to show everybody that I could actually do this. That's what motivated me.”

“Growing up in Carol City, it was always a creative place for me to be because it was mad influential, especially going to Carol City High.”

“I'm sponsored by Nike and stuff.”

“I'm not going to be the next anything. I'm going to be the first me, and someone's going to follow, and then they'll be the next me.”

“Everybody wants freedom. You don't want to be shackled, especially as an artist. Nobody wants to be shackled, at the end of the day.”

“The best Christmas that l had was probably when I got my Xbox. When I first got an Xbox, it was, like, the very first Xbox when it came out.”

“I think I sound like the apocalypse destroying the Earth to the sounds of trumpets skating across the heavens played by angels.”

“My parents were really into music. They would play the Funkadelics, Parliament, OutKast; they would just play that all around the house. They'd also play Isaac Hayes, Marvin Gaye, James Brown.”

“I think being sensitive gives you powers. You get the logic and the flexibility of emotions.”

“'This Life' definitely! That's my favorite song off 'Imperial,' period.”

“I did karate.”

“People want to see what you going to come with next, and I gotta keep evolving.”

“Without Spaceghostpurrp, you wouldn't have people like Seshollowaterboys - you wouldn't have people like me; you wouldn't have people like ASAP - if it weren't for him.”

“I went from following people to being on my own. Once I was on my own, I watched people start liking me, and I watched people stop liking me. Everything was supposed happen. It was all supposed to reveal itself.”

“I want to master every style of music. I want to master every way of performing. I want to master every artsy music video style and just be the greatest of all-time.”

“I used to do poetry in elementary school. I used to just write.”

“I really don't think I have a genre, honestly, 'cause I make such different music even though it is rap.”

“When I went on tour with The Underachievers, I didn't know how to perform. I just had the energy.”