Desiigner

“My dad worked on ambulances for a while; my mother had a lot of different jobs with the city.”

“My job was to entertain. I've always seen myself in the entertainment realm.”

“Everybody in my family sings. We were either in a choir, or there was something going on at home where we were singing.”

“I love to, you know, just inspire people however they wanna take it.”

“When people are like, 'Why are these white people walking around this black hood?' I'm like, 'Why aren't they?' If it ain't bothering nobody, they can do whatever they want! They're in the hood to make it better.”

“The minute they gave me number one, I went to the studio. I was ready to give y'all something else. I was going 120 miles an hour.”

“The work ethic behind everything Kanye does is crazy. It's greatness. He told me, 'We're not just rappers, we're artists.'”

“I want to do a big donation to the pandas for all the panda lovers out there.”

“The biggest challenge for me is just knowing how to calm down.”

“Big ups to him, big ups to Future. I actually like Future's music. I like his music, you feel me. I'm not a hater or a critic on him, you know, I do me. God bless him, God bless me.”

“You can catch me in whatever's funky, whatever's got that swag. If it's got that swag, I'm putting it on.”

“Even the diss tracks was enhancing 'Panda.'”

“None of my dudes I chill with are rappers. I don't put us as rappers. We're all artists.”

“I'm here to actually deliver art and deliver the creation, you know, wherever the music brings somebody.”

“Choirs, auditions, talent shows, I was doing it all.”

“I played the sax at school. I was in marching band.”

“I never had a job. I never saw myself working for corporate business.”

“I was the singing boy in school.”

“In the G.O.O.D. Music camp, we all come around, and we show ourselves and present ourselves as artists only.”

“I went from selling everything to saying, 'I ain't gonna sell that. Can't do it.' It wasn't working for me, so I was just like, 'Yo, I'm going to sell my talent.'”