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“I never take nothing serious.”

“When I was like in grade 3, my mom bought me a boom box for Christmas. I would lay the boom box on my chest... I would put it on my chest and listen to music all day.”

“It's tough for someone to see me from the outside, the way I look, to take me seriously.”

“I'm always in the studio. The studio is kinda like rolling the dice every night. It's like gambling. It's like buying a lottery ticket. The more times you go to the studio, it's just more lottery tickets, more chances you win on the jackpot.”

“I'm always going to keep getting better because I'm a music man first.”

“I'm pretty quiet in the media. It's just the way I carry myself.”

“When I record, I move stuff around a lot. I'll start off with a verse but then make that the hook.”

“Half of these dudes are hating on you because they're in their one-bedroom apartment writing on their MacBook Air. You can't take it and make it personal.”

“I remember hiding behind my mom at parent teacher conferences.”

“Cash was really hands-on with me. When we did 'Bad Habits,' he noticed mistakes like me saying since lines over and over again on certain songs. That just happened naturally. He literally told me to change a bar.”

“There was a time when I gave up music completely and I sold all my equipment just because it wasn't going anywhere.”

“The craziest thing I've ever been called in my whole career is an industry plant.”

“I'm ready for what comes with success. It's part of the job. But I'm not a controversial person. Like I don't got a lot of controversy around me.”

“I really wanted attention. I really liked attention. But now that I got all the attention I find myself just, like, chilling by myself or going to low-key places.”

“I don't really like attention that much. But at the end of the day, if they're snapping you, that means you're doing something right - or wrong.”

“I became, like, pretty much the coolest kid in high school because I had started making beats for local rappers.”

“I have to think 30 times before I do or say anything because I'm representing a whole race to the world in hip-hop, which is crazy.”

“In any creative process, the hardest thing is putting the pen to paper. You walk around the room staring at a blank piece like, 'What if I don't make a good song? What if I don't make a good book? What if I don't make a good painting?' You just gotta put your pen to the paper and not judge your work.”

“Honestly, I don't really celebrate that much in general. I don't go on vacations and stuff like that. I feel like every day is like Saturday for me.”

“There's been times that I did songs with people and they didn't put me on their album, I just respect their vision.”