Roddy Ricch

“I listened to Lil Wayne a lot when I was kid.”

“All my songs mean something to me.”

“I'm still very involved in my community. I give back and I'm always there for the homies. That's one of the biggest parts of what I do.”

“I want to make people think about certain things or have them ask the question of 'why.' I just want to always keep the people wondering.”

“Jewelry isn't a necessity, but sometimes it can bring out my fashion. Sometimes if I'm wearing very dark clothes, like darker colored, black, anything like that, and I put white jewelry on top, it look crazy because it's like, the contrast of the diamonds and the dark clothes.”

“I don't want people to think like Roddy is John Legend now. I just felt like once I got to a certain point, that I wanted to expand musically.”

“I can't just close myself off to the world, because then I won't be inspired anymore. I won't be able to talk about nothing.”

“I've always known that I have a different mentality. I can move in different ways and that's for people to realize.”

“If I'm speaking to the streets and for the streets, they gon' respond. I don't even be thinking about blowing up.”

“Never be ashamed of who you are, your story, or how you react to situations. Don't ever be ashamed of how you communicate with people. Don't ever be ashamed of the person you are. Be you.”

“You never wanna rise to the top too fast in anything.”

“I made 'Free Game' based on personal experiences, what I been through, my life, exposing people to the fact that I'm in the streets.”

“I think I'ma make every hood proud. Everybody that ever seen me come up, know what I came from, know how I came up, know where I started. I feel like I'ma just make everybody proud.”

“Kendrick Lamar taught me that life experience is an important part of being a good illustrator. When you're illustrating a story, you have to go based off of your personal experiences.”

“I believe in full albums, and whatever comes out of those full albums will come.”

“As I experience life, my music is gonna evolve. At the same time, I still do tell the stories from my world because there are unlimited stories and unlimited people from that place. I'll always represent them. As my life begins to change and I do different things, I still want to be able to tap in and relate to them.”

“I just stay in my own lane and not worry about what anyone else is doing and settling my own pace.”

“I got a portrait of Nipsey at my house, bro. I got to put a platinum plaque by that, and my brother is not here to share that with me. That's his first platinum single. We did that together.”

“I just wanted to do something positive. I feel like music was the talent that I had, I just had to tap into it.”

“It's one of the essentials just to have a lighter on me, you never know what you might have to use. I like my lighters to be blue and small, they can fit in a pocket.”