Kyle

“Big Sean is one of the dopest rappers, of my lifetime for sure. Like, Big Sean is one of the best rappers. Period.”

“I played baseball. I kind of sucked at that. They used to call me 'The Buntmaster' because my coach never wanted me to swing.”

“What's important is that people never give up that fight to be happy, because when you do that, that's when things really start to go wrong.”

“I'm definitely a West Coast artist, so much so that I'm gonna get 'Thug Life' tatted on my stomach one day.”

“Kodak is hard. 'No Flockin' is an amazing song.”

“My favorite rapper of all time is Jadakiss - hands down, no question.”

“I've always wanted to make people feel better or feel alright or feel comfortable or not threatened and feel OK in their own skin.”

“All I can do with my music is try and be a light for people who are in a dark time.”

“When you start making music, you start making music at a young age, and for me, I just thought, like, 'Ahh, once you make it, all your problems will be solved, and everything will be fine.'”

“Mike Tyson and Kool G Rap had lisps - lisps always been cool!”

“Randomly enough, all of my favorite rappers growing up were East Coast rappers. I don't know. I just related to them a little more at first - because if you're born in L.A., and you lived there your whole life, Snoop Dogg literally sounds like cars driving by. You feel me? You hear Snoop Dogg so much.”

“Nobody can deliver a line better than Jadakiss. That's where I learned my technique. He can deliver punchlines so perfectly wrapped up for you to enjoy. If I had a different favorite rapper, I wouldn't be able to make some of the music I do.”

“I wanna make music that helps people.”

“People should listen to my music if they are into a lot of different genres and kind of want to get it all at once, if they want to listen to a story, an interesting story about somebody else.”

“I don't feel pressure to act like other people or rap like other people, because I just can't.”

“We really have the power to illuminate all negative things in our life, but we have to find that light source inside of us and really tap in with it and reconnect with it.”

“I would want people to be their own superheroes, save their own days, know that nobody else is gonna do it for you. You have to pick yourself up out of your dark moment; you gotta be your own source of light, just like I was for me.”

“I think love is, by far, the strongest force in the entire universe. Love is so strong, it'll make you do something that, in any other circumstance, you would never do.”

“The name 'Light of Mine' came from how the album was conceived and what its purpose was in telling my story. I started making it at a time when I was, more or less, in a darker place than usual.”

“I have a really diverse family and have a diverse background in music.”