A biography for Tee Grizzleyhasn’t been written yet.
“'Don't Even Trip' gave me a chance to really like put some swag on a song. I put the sauce on it.”
“Greatest Detroit MC... Eminem.”
“I really tell a lot of stories. I want people to know who I am.”
“I'm just gonna keep making good music and continue to stay in tune with the people and with reality.”
“I read all types of books. I read Christian books, I read black novels, I read religious books. I read stuff like 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' and 'The Dictator's Handbook' and then I turned around and read science-fiction novels.”
“I can be more real and more vulnerable when I sing.”
“I just want people to know I'm mentally strong.”
“I've had a lot of big impacts before the music as far as deaths and tragedies and experiences in my life.”
“A lot of my friends and the people I mingle with, they not famous. They don't got half of what I got. For me, what that do is, it keeps me humble. It keeps me grateful and appreciative of what I got.”
“I think my genre is more 'reality rap'; I talk about my life and the struggles that I've been through.”
“If I'm just hanging with all stars and people with money, you can get lost and caught up. You get to moving like you got it made and you get to spending. That's how a lot of people go broke.”
“I really like R&B more than rap.”
“Like, you can have church at your house. I feel like as long as you're giving Him praise, you can do it wherever. You don't have to be inside of a church to give praise to Him.”
“When I was in prison, rap was all I had at that point because I was kicked out of school, all that education just gone and I couldn't come out of prison to play football - that was all over with.”
“I was raised by my grandma, had aunties and sisters in the house.”
“I can't even go to Rolling Loud and perform without the police and the news lying on me, trying to lock me up.”
“God just kept me on the right path. I never smoked, drank, none of that.”
“Getting off parole is like walking out them cells all over again. There was a lot of stuff I couldn't do when I was on parole. I had a curfew, couldn't go to certain cities, couldn't be around certain people, and you miss out on a lot of opportunities.”
“I don't have no shame.”
“My favorite Adele song is 'Hello.'”