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" Eminem heard my music, and he didn't wanna take a meeting with me. "

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" I'm trying to bring gangster rap back to the forefront, like in the early '90s. "

" Everything don't work out for the best. You have to use a lot of those things as lessons in order to build yourself up. "

" I still bump 'Smells Like Teen Spirit.' I used to listen to it before all my football games. "

" I'm cool with doing shows with 2,000 people. I don't have to rap in a stadium. As long as I can provide for my family and my art and live comfortably and live well, then I'm good. "

" When you go to places like Gary and Detroit, you see the economic problem in this country and who it's really affecting. "

" My mom had me at a young age, like 20, and she was the oldest child. All her brothers were seven and 10, so I was like a younger brother more so than the oldest child. I was the younger brother to all my uncles, so they were going through their childhood and their teenage years, and I was right there. "

" I don't really know what a debut album is no more. As long as you got music on the streets, you've debuted. "

" Tupac is definitely an icon. There'll never be another Tupac, so I'm not gonna ever, ever try to fill those shoes. I'm just gonna stay in my lane and be the best me that I can be. "

" I wanted to be a gangsta from birth, not because of the music but moreso what I was seeing, what my uncles were doing. I was just fascinated with the street lifestyle from a young age. "

" I feel like some artists need a record label, and some don't. "

" When everybody goes left, I'm gonna go right most of the time. "

" Gary is a old factory town right outside Chicago. From my standpoint, my family migrated there in the '50s and '60s from Mississippi - Sardis, Mississippi - shout out to Sardis, Mississippi. My family migrated there just like a lot of black families in that area: they migrated there to get jobs, to get those factory jobs, that steel mill job. "

" I've been known not to bite my tongue. "

" I'm not trying to obey the rules of radio. "

" Ninety percent of the general public aren't gangstas, so all of the rappers aren't going to be gangstas. "

" I'm from Gary, Indiana, and everybody's damn near at the poverty level. It's a rough city to grow up in, and it's a modern-day ghost town. "

" Sports is one of the keys to my life. It definitely kept me out of a lot of trouble and gave me a lot of discipline. "

" I've been engulfed in sports since I was a 2-year-old; I picked up any kind of ball - a basketball, baseball, football - I just loved to play something. I loved the energy of being in arenas and watching the game on TV. "

" I think that 'Pinata' album is going to stand the test of time. It's going to be a moment in hip-hop, whether people know it or not. It's nothing else like that in rap. It's going to forever hold its place. "

" The things I rap about are 100 percent real. But at the same time, I don't rap about those things to tear my city down. I give you the reality of what it is and what I been through and how it is living in those conditions in Gary, Ind. "

" The Bears need to let me be GM. "

" I'm a loyal dude. "

" I grew up on N.W.A., Geto Boys. My dad was listening to that. "

" Ain't nothin' changed with me. I'm Eastside Gary til I die. "

" I don't like rap that doesn't have a story behind it. "

" I just have to go against the grain. I mean, I can be objective and do what I need to do, handle my everyday living, follow directions, etc. But there's something that's always been attracted to that taboo. It's been like that since I was a child. "

" I've been interested in basketball since I was a little kid - like, 3. The Bulls were my team. If you grew up in Gary, the Bulls were everybody's team. "

" This is the land of getting over. The land of second or even third chances; the land of doing whatever you have to do by any means necessary in order to fulfill the American Dream. "

" I don't ever really plan my sets. I just get out there and feel the energy of the crowd. "

" I had a nightmare that I was mopping floors and that this Freddie Gibbs thing was all a dream. "