Tee Grizzley

“To me, being real is being yourself. You know, that's whether you're a pop artist or whatever.”

“I appreciate Drake's music, I appreciate Future's music, I appreciate Lil Durk's music. I appreciate Uzi, Meek Mill, I appreciate Migos.”

“It's kind of hard to tell your life story and state all facts and it still be sweet.”

“I am going to make singles with other artists and put those out there - I'd love to work with Bruno Mars, Drake, Kendrick Lamar. But when somebody buys a Tee Grizzley album, all they're going to hear is Tee Grizzley.”

“I realized that I got problems bigger than anything that can happen in prison. So I started reading books, talking to people who had a head on their shoulders, sold my TV and just got a whole bunch of books.”

“In chess, you gotta come up with a strategy. I made a lot of plans in my life. 'I'ma do this, I'ma do that, this is gonna happen, that's gonna happen.' And a lot of stuff don't go as planned. You really gotta act on events as they unfold. That's how I compare chess to life.”

“When people hear my music, they ain't really hearing about no shiny stuff, the glamorous life. They're going to hear that gritty, slum.”

“Yachty is a real dude. He's a person who sticks to his word.”

“Donald Trump is a good businessman, and I say that because he made a lot of money, so he got to be. As far as his presidency, I ain't pay no attention to him and what he been doing in office.”

“I have a relationship with God. I do believe in God, The Son, and Holy Ghost. But I respect everybody, and as far as the Muslims go, I like how they live because they have discipline. They have real structure and I like.”

“Ain't nobody gonna come from where I come from, keep it real as I did and make it with the local Detroit sound that has never made it in the industry before. Where I'm going, I don't feel like too many people from my city are going to blaze this trail.”

“TV shows help pass a lot of my time.”

“I started rapping when I was young, like 12, 11. But I wasn't really talking about nothing and it didn't really get me nowhere.”

“I really can't make no wrong moves out here, because just as quick as you can get people to love you, you can get people to hate you.”

“People so obsessed with being real in hip-hop because they don't want people to think that they're lying.”