Logic

“I was a little nervous that people wouldn't take to 'Under Pressure,' because my style and what I embodied had previously been the braggadocious '90s fun rapper type. Before this album, I didn't rap about my life much.”

“Everyone's going to like something that's different.”

“Black folk who don't realize I'm mixed will treat me like I'm some racist person, or when white people find out I'm black, they treat me with racism, and I don't feel like I belong or fit in anywhere.”

“We're human. Enjoy yourself. You work hard every day; you deserve to turn up on the weekends with your friends.”

“I turn down really well-paid shows all over the world because I want to spend more time with my wife and myself.”

“I skipped school starting in tenth grade. I started doing badly and failed every class but English, so they kicked me out of school. They gave up on me.”

“I think artists are interested in what people think of them.”

“Stand and fight for those who are not weak but have yet to discover the strength that the evil of this world has done its best to conceal.”

“I wake up every day, I deal with hundreds of thousands, or millions, of dollars. I fund my tours by myself. I do merch by myself. I employ people. I have my own successful company.”

“I grew up on Wu-Tang and Tribe and Nas, all the raw, very New York-driven music. Then when I got older - in my late teens, early twenties - and that's when I started to listen to Drake and J. Cole, and so it wasn't just East-coast.”

“If you don't wake up and have your own thing, whether it's writing or reading or traveling or acting or dancing or singing or being a mother or a father, something that drives you, then it's all worth nothing. One of the key elements in happiness is purpose.”

“Anybody who loves what they do, they're constantly doing it all the time. So I'm constantly working.”

“Just because you got money doesn't mean you're gonna be happy, and just 'cuz you can buy everything in the world doesn't mean you're gonna find your purpose.”

“I don't want to be looked at as just that guy with the best mixtape of the year. I want to be, all-in-all, an incredible musician.”

“Fans tend to think that if you fall in love with an artist... and then he gets bigger, and he grows, and he starts to make a different sound, 'He's changing on us.' But with me, I created all types of sounds from the get go, so you can never say I'm changing; you can never say I'm going mainstream or I'm selling out.”

“The biggest part of why I am where I am today is not only because people can relate to me and my story but because I hit the road and actually saw them face to face and shook their hands.”

“I'm a relationship guy. I'm not about that 'rapper life.'”

“I sacrificed a lot of things growing up.”

“I've been working a lot with No I.D. and Hit-Boy.”

“Sometimes I watch movies. I don't party. I don't go out. It's just me and my homies in our circle. I stay away from everyone and everything so I can just continue to remain who I am.”