G-Eazy

“Word of mouth is the most valuable form of marketing, but you can't buy it. You can only deliver it. And you have to really deliver.”

“Whenever I can squeeze it in, I'm writing and recording.”

“There's multiple ways I express myself. Music is my first love and will always come first. But, there are other areas and industries I'm interested in that reflect different aspects of my lifestyle.”

“I'll be a Bay kid for the rest of my life. That's in my veins; that's in my bones.”

“I've been in love with music since I was old enough to establish my taste.”

“I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.”

“When you use a sample in a big way, when you loop something in the way I did with 'Runaround Sue,' it's like you have your chords and your melody and the quality of the song right there before you add your own production. It's like the song is already made, in a sense.”

“What's weird is the Hot Boys and the whole New Orleans Cash Money thing had a really big impact on the Bay when that was popping off. I don't all the way understand it. I mean, I know that they were big everywhere and had a lot of commercial success in the mid to late '90s, but they were really, really felt in the Bay Area.”

“The Bay area made me who I am, and it only felt right to go back there.”

“Chance The Rapper makes some of the greatest music out, and he build his brand up organically, and the fans have reacted to it.”

“Growing up, I heard as much E-40 and Mac Dre on the radio as I did 50 Cent. It's in our culture to support our own.”

“I'm on Tumblr all the time.”

“For whatever reason, it's easier to perform in front of a massive crowd than in front of a small one, but again, that's how we came up.”

“As we've added players to the team, like a videographer, a drummer, or a sound guy, we're trying to keep a bus full of A players and keep a culture where everybody is comfortable enough to push each other in their areas to be great.”

“My mom was a single parent.”

“I've never been critically acclaimed. I've never been nominated for no Grammy. I've never been on no magazine cover. It's almost taboo to say I'm actually good.”

“If we're deciding about merch pieces, t-shirts or hats, they have to be well designed and cool enough for somebody to want to buy it and then wear it and walk around advertising me and my music.”

“I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.”

“When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.”

“I like to have a lot of girls over and play loud music.”