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" 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. "

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" My TV stays locked at 'SportsCenter.' That and 'Pardon the Interruption.' "

" 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 don't mind travelling. I'm independent, so I gotta get on the grind. "

" Stuart Scott was a hero. "

" 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. "

" Every project might only sell like 30 to 50,000, but I mean, I'm getting seven, eight dollars every CD. I make more money per record than an artist on a major label - I can definitely say that. "

" I wasn't fully aware of the things that Madlib did musically, but my manager put me up on game. I'm not gonna act like I was a Madlib head when I wasn't. I didn't understand a lot of it at first. But it opened my mind to some things, and it's me bringing that gangster element to things that he does. It's like a perfect marriage. "

" Scarface is my favorite rapper. "

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

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

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

" I remember I used to go school with guys who couldn't afford notebooks, pens, paper: the necessary tools needed in order to survive in school. It's a lot of kids in Gary who are at a disadvantage without that. "

" I always feel like the underdog. "

" I feel like with a lot of Madlib's beats, they are made for storytelling. I feel like when I'm working on stuff with him, I can really get into the storytelling aspect mode of my flow. "

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" I'm a loyal dude. "

" I'm like LeBron, man. I'm like a smaller LeBron. That's why I'm not in the NBA. If I had about five, six more inches, I'd be in the league. "

" I have a respect for Young Jeezy. But the reason things didn't work out for me and Young Jeezy was because our approach to the industry... My approach to the industry was a tad bit different than his. I wanted to approach my career a different way; he wanted to go a different way. "

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

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" I feel like I influence more than just rap. "

" I'm not really comfortable with being on songs with cats I don't really know. "

" When I first came in the game, I had a bunch of homies that rapped that was hanging around me just because I was getting the rap attention, and they felt they could feed off of that. "

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" Jeezy just recognized my grind, and I jumped on board with him to enhance it. Artistically, we're in the same mind frame. We come from very similar backgrounds - poverty. That's something that we can both relate to, something that we can convey in our music. "

" I like good music, whichever lane it comes out of. As long as it's dope, that is all that matters with me. "