That first tape I did dropped in 2009. It was just for fun, I'm like 'I'm just going to do something to have fun.' Everyone was just 'put out a tape. You're young. You've got money. It ain't gonna hurt you. Who's it gonna hurt?' So what I ended up doing was I put out the tape, pressed up 20,000 CDs, flooded the streets. Read Summary
Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him. Read Summary
Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment. Read Summary
I want to write, direct, produce, but in steps. I want to take steps. I don't want to just jump in because I sold a lot of records and just feel like I can jump into the movie world. Naw, I want to learn the movie world like I learned the music world. Read Summary
I think I been chosen to be a 2020 XXL Freshman 'cause, you know, I been rocking with XXL since I started, you know what I'm saying? They respect grind, you know? Read Summary
The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records. Read Summary
Every artist wants something different out the game. Read Summary
Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we're doing to the next level, without compromising. Read Summary
My goal the whole time has been for people to see me as a stand-alone artist. I came out with Young Money, the biggest hip-hop label in the world at the time. And then it was, 'How do I branch away from Lil Wayne?' Read Summary
Female rappers get it the hardest. You have to be a girl, yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. I think some female rappers get scared out of the business before they can make it. Read Summary
I know it takes more than one album to stay around. Read Summary
I have my hopes high. I don't know how I'll top the Luke Combs tour, but I guess we'll see. Read Summary
I would love to collab with The Weeknd, for sure. Read Summary
Everyone that I work with is a friend. I won't make a record with anyone unless we kick it. Read Summary
I'm not a Soundcloud rapper anymore. Read Summary
Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn't ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing. Read Summary
I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves. Read Summary
I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both. Read Summary
I'm sticking to the script, I'm putting that organic feeling back in the game. Read Summary
They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh? Read Summary