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“I don't feel like I'm influenced by anybody, but I feel I'm definitely becoming more a leader.”
“If you put negative things out about anyone every day, they're gonna start believing it, sorta like propaganda if you think about it.”
“It's just crazy the way people portray me.”
“You've just got to focus on you, yourself, your family, your team... and all the rest is just fluff.”
“My main goal is to help the team as much as possible anyway I can. If they need me to shoot the three, I'll shoot the three. If they need me to run the floor and block shots, I'll do that also.”
“In high school I used to go coast to coast all the time at 6-11.”
“I'm not really a vengeful person.”
“As a kid, you always wanna play for either the Lakers or Boston just for the rivalry alone.”
“Going to Golden State, I really fine-tuned everything on defense, which is important because the NBA is moving away from standard bigs and going toward bigs that can switch and things like that.”
“I don't need to be a banger. I dunk on people.”
“I was in Dallas and I had gained weight and knew becoming a vegetarian was the quickest way to lose it. I just wasn't sure if I could do it.”
“If you're just dunking by yourself, it's really nothing special. You have to dunk on someone - then you feel like you're demoralizing them.”
“I'll stay in the studio for 12 hours at a time, just producing music and making records. It doesn't feel like 'Oh man I've got a job to do.' It's more like 'Oh man I didn't even realize I've been there this long.'”
“Yeah I definitely rep the city of Flint.”
“People try to bring negativity into my life, but it's crazy how I deflect it.”
“I always look at Akon as inspiration, and the fact that at one point Lady Gaga was signed to Konvict Muzik.”
“It's low-key depressing when you're not winning.”
“It's all love in L.A. The fans are great.”
“I'm a producer and not a rapper. So I can make any style of music I want. I can make an EDM beat. I can put an EDM track out one day and I can put a grungy hip-hop track out the next day, like, it doesn't matter.”
“I chose basketball over film.”