Lil B

“My perspective of capitalism growing up in Berkeley, Calif. in a low-income project, growing up poor, is that capitalism wanted to destroy me, they wanted me to become a worker.”

“If one person reaches out to me, who am I not to reach back? Even if it takes me a year to reply, they do get that message and they feel it.”

“If the white folks feel America is great for everybody, I don't want to change what they love. All I want is to bring my love and respect in the areas of law, policy, business, and banking. That's what I do when I do my extremely rare lectures at universities.”

“I want people to smile when they hear my name.”

“Before Lil B, hip-hop and music in general was in a different space. Lil B really just pushed this independence.”

“Sometimes, I know it's not me that makes this music. Like, when the Based God comes, he speaks to me. It's not me, even though I'm there playing the music live, myself.”

“Before the money or anything, number one, it was just to put out real music, real stuff with a passion, real art.”

“I give it all to Based God, I'm just putting stuff together that the Based God gives me.”

“I have a song that's called 'Rap Dreams, Hoop Dreams'. Besides education, everybody's got hoop dreams from day one in rap. Rap, sports, music have so much of an impact on the world.”

“Clams's music to me is where there's no boundaries. It was just exciting for my mind to be as free as Clams's music is.”

“An artist should appreciate anybody that appreciates their art because really bro, without people I can't do anything.”

“After I started based freestyling. Just spending a lot of time learning about myself and entering a higher level within my mind. I was exploring my mind, and I ended up finding the Based God.”

“I listen to music all the time. I need music and I love music and I appreciate it. It inspires me.”

“Rappers are definitely role models and definitely should get involved. They're involved in politics whether they like it or not.”

“I like the Bay Area because it's very diverse, and I'm in touch with the people.”

“What I mean by being real is just when you are doing dance celebrations, sports celebrations, like the cooking dance or anything like that. When you're an artist, you want to always try your best to do the homework and see where it originated from.”

“I'll stand for the anthem, I don't have a problem standing for it.”

“I'm a fan of hip-hop as a whole, period. I love hip-hop. I look at it as a study and I love it.”

“I definitely see myself as as much a feminist as I can try to be. I know I'm not perfect, but I definitely feel the connection with women. I feel them.”

“It's all run by one person, but, real talk, Brandon McCartney is a book author, the Based God is perfect and Lil B is the trendsetter, the person that everyone follows and pays attention to.”