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“I'm very much a person of free thought.”

“Back in the early 1980s when rappers couldn't perform in the fancy venues because the police were too racist and scared, it was the punk venues letting them in to perform.”

“I really got deep into downloading music when I moved to the South and got a computer. So I was downloading the The Diplomats, AZ, Half-A-Mil, 40 Cal.”

“I used to get stop-and-frisked every time I walked out of my house.”

“When I released 'Veteran' and the reception was good, it was the first time I ever worked really hard on something and had that hard work reciprocated back to me.”

“I want to work with Danny Brown but also Cannibal Corpse and Maroon 5.”

“Everything I say is true and from the heart. I exaggerate some things, but the core base of it is just facts.”

“If you listen to my music, you know who I'm talking to, what I'm talking about, and exactly what my message is.”

“Bjork for sure. Definitely, I would like to do like something with Tommy Genesis, too. There's a lot of people actually.”

“I like for things to be judged fairly.”

“In my opinion, the most dangerous thing an artist can do in this day and age is not embrace the present.”

“I'm not some patriot. I didn't have some yearning to defend my country or anything. I was poor.”

“Baltimore has the hardest work ethic out of all cities. It makes you want to work harder.”

“I'm going to shock you with the truth. I'm just going to give it to you raw, and however you take it, I'm just going to watch your reaction.”

“When I first started rapping, I used to just jock Jay Z super hard. Back when I was like 14 and 15, it was, like, Jay Z, Ice Cube, and Lil Wayne.”

“After the military, I floundered around between jobs for a while, and there was an opportunity for me to go live in Japan. I was living on the Okinawa Airport Base, off the grid, no real address.”

“I enjoy making music more than anything in the world. It's the only thing that it's felt the same since I was like 15.”

“I'm an artist but I'm also a real person. I have bills like everyone else.”

“I don't know if there's anything Kanye West can do that can erase his influence on me, because it's here. It's already there. He can't even reverse that himself, because it's just so ingrained in me.”

“When you're you long enough, you get to this space where people start respecting you.”