My biggest obstacle is trying to keep the music pure to what I want to release. I don't want any corporate suit telling me what story to tell.
I was never really like, 'Oh, I wanna be famous,' you know, 'I wanna be a big rapper.' I mean, I love rap, but it wasn't just fame.
When people say they can't find African-American startups to invest in, it just sounds a little crazy to me.
Being an entrepreneur isn't easy, but it's even harder for minority and women-led companies.
Life is too short to be arguing over some little things.
When I decided to collaborate with people, I wanted to collaborate more with the underdogs, the street people, messing with the people like Jae Millz and Papoose. When I went to New York, they were all over the mixtapes, so I wanted to get down with those guys instead of trying to go safe with all the super-big names.
I woud definitely want to collaborate with Indian musicians.
There are musicians who wait all their lives for this award while for me it came with my first album. People have started acknowledging my work because of the Grammy.
I'm a human before I'm even a rapper.
I got kicked out of my father's home because of my feelings towards hip-hop.
You can learn how to code today. You can build this same thing that you're looking at every day, that you're tweeting on, that you're snapping on, and I feel like that conversation needs to be had.
I can't live without my iPhone.
If I was to leave home without my wallet and my iPhone, and I could only go back and get one, I'd grab my iPhone.
Sometimes I'll do something when I'm tired at night, and it'll sound hot. But in the morning, when I'm wide awake, I'll listen again and think it's way off. Nobody else would notice it, but I'm like, I've got to fix that!
I used to try to get revenge on the critics, but now I realize I've already won, and it doesn't matter what people say.
Everybody's out there trying to be somebody else. Even the good guy's trying to be the bad guy, you know? Just be yourself, man. I think that works.
I'm just living life and enjoying it. Alive, kicking, and doing good. That's what a real winner is.
Don't let evil agendas turn us against each other.
If you don't have respect for immigrants, or you don't have respect for minorities, or you don't have respect for women, it's gonna be very difficult for you to understand why the other side needs to be treated fairly.
When fans know they are being rewarded, they are more engaged.
