Jay Rock

“I been around negativity all my life. To do something positive, it's a beautiful thing.”

“Everybody knows how hard Jay Rock is.”

“Shout out to J. Cole. We come from the same type of struggles. He put the real in his music, I put the real in mine.”

“That's what it's about. Bringing unity, so our kids can grow up safe.”

“Whatever you're trying to do, wherever you're trying to go in life, whatever you got your mindset on, stay there.”

“When I was about 17 or 18, I would go through my boy's garage and they had a little studio set up. I would just play around there.”

“Money can make or break you. It just depends on what you make it to be.”

“At the end of the day, I had to learn that it's all about having fun... na'mean?”

“I've been able to win a Grammy and then to come back and get the key to the city of Watts.”

“The hood always got my back.”

“I've got big homies that done been through the same thing I've been through and they made it out, changed their life and they come back and snatch young cats up and lecture them and let them know right way to do it.”

“I always wanted to do a record called, 'The Three J's,' because you got me, Jay Rock, you got J. Cole, and you got Jay Z. I thought that it would be dope. I said, if I couldn't get Jay Z, we'll get Jay Electronica.”

“What's right is right, and what's wrong is wrong. That's how I live my life.”

“We all knew how talented K.Dot is. We knew how dope he was lyrically.”

“When I was 6, 7 years old, I was raised on all the old-school stuff. My momma used to play oldies in the house. That's all my momma used to play around the house was oldies.”

“I worked with Busta back in the days, shoutout to the OG Busta Rhymes.”

“A lot of people have been sending me beats, I've just been getting it in.”

“That's what I used to do; I would just go into the studio and just rap. But it's all about coming up with dope concepts and dope hooks.”

“I've been working with a lot of different producers.”

“We just need more father figures and more older people to come and school these youth, because there will be a lost generation. And that's what a gang's supposed to be, protecting family and doing what you've got to do for your loved ones.”