Shy Glizzy

“None of my songs sound the same. None of them. I take R&B beats and put it as a rap song or hip-hop beats and put them as a R&B song. A lot of people are boring. I don't like boring music. Everybody sounds the same, like they copying.”

“Everyone can relate to me no matter what race or who you are or how you feeling.”

“'Free the Gang,' that's my favorite song because it's so real. All my music is real, it's authentic, but it's something about that song that I love.”

“I don't want to be stuck in the same spot, just dropping mixtapes for no reason.”

“If I don't get in the studio, I don't have no therapy.”

“No one shows love. There's no unity between the artists and the streets. There's none of that in D.C. You're never gonna get love in D.C. If you get love in D.C., then you're a special person.”

“When that music comes on, I just block everything around me out.”

“I'm not even worried about the Internet; that ain't even my thing. I'm not even an Internet guy. You rarely even see me into that.”

“I make my fans feel like they are part of the movement, and if you a fan of the movement, you're going to feel like you ride with me.”

“In my hood, I was always with the older guys.”

“I ain't go on media and spazz. That's what crash dummies do. That ain't what I do.”

“I don't know rap. I can't tell you a Tupac song. But you put on some go-go, and I'll know it word-for-word. That's why I feel like I got my own sound - or a D.C. sound.”

“My fan base just growing and growing. People know that I'm not just coming and going. They know that I'm here to stay.”

“'Awwsome' was a different type of song for an artist like me, but it's still a true song. I was talking street stuff, but I was feeling awesome.”

“My music is genuine, and I'm talking about stuff that no one else - no one my age, anyway, in the game - is talking about. Nobody. I'm the only one really stating facts and speaking with real street knowledge.”

“I'm worried about myself. Glizzy gang, that's it. I'm not worried about no other rappers.”

“At 13 years old, I was doing grown-man things, so I know who I am, and I'm telling people who I am.”

“The love that I get outweighs the hate.”

“There was a point in time, when I put out the Chief Keef diss, where I was so hot that everybody was calling my phone. But I decided to go set up under Wale, but he wasn't really teaching me how to rap.”

“Glizzy Gang is a real movement. They had movements back when I was younger, in the '90s, but you don't really have a major movement in the 2000s.”