A biography for YGhasn’t been written yet.
“I ain't come from money.”
“Jeezy like a big brother.”
“I was in jail, and I got signed three months later.”
“I just want to make something that's going to stick around for 10 or 15 years.”
“I was spending my own money on videos, spending my own money on radio, doing all that.”
“My heart is numb. It's not broke, it's numb. It's numb because of hard situations.”
“Before Mustard was even making beats, he was my DJ. He was doing all my shows with me before I was even cracking, back in, like, '08, '09.”
“My mama's been supportive since day one.”
“Def Jam was always trying to get me to put out an album because I had 'Toot It and Boot It.'”
“The streets made me who I am.”
“It's not our land; it's not made for us. It's America. That's how it was designed. We came here as slaves. It wasn't designed for us to win.”
“I'ma stay consistent. I'ma deliver. And I'ma keep using my platform to uplift people who I feel got what it take or deserve it or just - you feel me?”
“My mom and her whole side of the family, they all from Compton.”
“I worked on 'Who Do You Love?' for, like, six months, really trying to, like - when I got it, I got it, but I was working on it for a minute cause I never had nothing to it. I couldn't get the flow or nothing. Then I just got it.”
“The first album was going to be called 'I'm from Bompton,' and then I changed it to 'My Krazy Life.'”
“You've got to do features with the right artists that you can take some of their fans, and their fans start doing their homework and see what you're doing, if they like what you're doing.”
“If I was president, you wouldn't be sitting in jail for crimes that's not violent; you wouldn't be doing too much time for crime that's not violent.”
“I been in the streets for a long time. They know me. They see me. They heard stories.”
“Me having my moms and pops in my life and knowing and seeing what they went through for us - it's why I'm a good father.”
“I feel like I'm regular. I'm humble.”