Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we're doing to the next level, without compromising.
Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it's no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create - in one generation - closing the gap. That's why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: 'cause it's life or death for real.
None of my peers avoided prison. None of 'em.
It's not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It's about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.
People that's in power - the central banks, these fiat currencies that are traded globally - they got influence over the messaging and the narrative in the media.
Doing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation.
I actually met The Game in my hood on Crenshaw and Slauson. I was outside on the block with 20 of my homies. I see the Range Rover, and we all walked up to his car. I handed him my CD.
I get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk.
I'm the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.
We represent a hustler. I think we represent inspiration. I think we represent, you know, staying down. I think we represent building yourself up from the bootstraps.
Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God.
As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I'm trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.
I always had faith in my creative capacity.
A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.
Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.
I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.
We don't want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.
I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.
One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.
Any time a country transitioned to a fiat currency, they collapsed. That's just world history; you don't have to know about cryptocurrency to know that.
