You know, not to sound corny or nuthin’, but I felt like a fighter comin’ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

I stopped watching TV because of ‘The Wire.’ Like, ‘The Wire’ ruined everything for me because I don’t even want to watch anything else now.

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‘Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this’.

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

I didn’t have nothin’ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

Say there’s a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter – for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that’s saying is that he’s living a fantasy life of rebellion.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it’s like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can’t really speak on it, because I wasn’t there. I don’t feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.

Five or six songs leaked from the original version of ‘Encore.’ So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.

There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that I am white, and you know, this is predominantly black music, you know.

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever. I’m not really book-smart.

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I’m just like, ‘Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do’.

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I’ll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I’ve written a whole song in an hour.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.

Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.

We sing for these kids who don’t have a thing.

You gotta find that inner strength and just pull that s**t out of you. And get that motivation to not give up and not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall on your face and collapse.

In my mind I’ma fighter, my heart’s a lighter, my soul is the fluid. My flow sparks it right up.

Be proud of who you are.

You can make something of your life. It just depends on your drive.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

They can trigger me. But they’ll never figure me out.

A normal life is boring.

Thanks cuz your hate is what gave me this strength.

And I am, whatever you say I am. If I wasn’t, then why would I say I am?

I don’t do ‘black music,’ I don’t do ‘white music’…I make fight music, for high school kids.

We’ll walk this road together, through the storm. Whatever weather, cold or warm.

You don’t get another chance. Life is no Nintendo game.

Why be a king,when you can be a god?

Yeah, it’s been a ride I guess I had to go to that place to get to this one. Now some of you might still be in that place. If you’re trying to get out, just follow me, I’ll get you there.

It was my decision to get clean, I did it for me. Admittedly I probably did it subliminally for you.

You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay ’em, But you won’t take the sting out these words before I say ’em.

ou better lose yourself in the music, the moment. You own it, you better never let it go. You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow. This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo.

That’s why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert’s Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity. To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment. Would you capture it or just let it slip?

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

But music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our checks in the mail.

You’d have to walk a thousand miles in my shoes just to see what its like to be me!!

Imma be what I set out to be without a doubt undoubtedly.

I’m just a little bit sicker than the average individual I think.F

It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it’s all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.

When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

Don’t let them say you ain’t beautiful. They can all get fu#ked just stay true to you.

Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.

Behind every successful person lies a pack of haters.

If you have enemies, good that means you stood up for something.

Success is my only option, failure’s not.

I started learning how to not be so angry about things, learning how to count my f—ing blessings instead. By doing that, I’ve become a happier person, instead of all this self-loathing I was doing for a while.

I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them…But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.

Cause sometimes, you just feel tired. Feel weak. And when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up. But you gotta search within you. You gotta find that inner strength, and just pull that shit out of you. And get that motivation to not give up and not be a quitter.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

God gave you them shoes to fit you, so put them on and wear them. Be yourself man, be proud of who you are. Even if it sounds corny, don’t let no one tell you, you ain’t beautiful.