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

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

" 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. "

" I'm not a big video game dude though, but I like 'Madden.' "

" There's some dudes that did Gangsta Grillz tapes who probably weren't worthy of it - their label just put up the bread, or they did a favor. "

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

" I went to a Bulls game when it was still in Chicago Stadium before they built the United Center. "

" I always want everything I do to be somewhat cinematic. I don't want to be the rapper that'll just post up and shoot a video anywhere with no real meaning to it. "

" I started hustling in early adolescence. "

" The Bears need to let me be GM. "

" 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. "

" I wanted to be in the NBA. I wanted to be in the NFL. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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'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. "

" Probably dancing to Cassie's 'Me & U' - That's my guilty pleasure. "

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

" He's been my number one influence. If you say Tupac didn't influence you, then you don't really need to be rapping because nobody evokes that kind of emotion on a track like Tupac does. "

" 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. "

" A lot of improvisation and freedom went into 'Pinata.' "

" I think that with me and Madlib, I was never afraid to really experiment with his tracks and things. "

" I'm not trying to act like I'm Superman or better than anybody else in the game. I'm just telling my story, showing my strengths and weaknesses - as a human, as a person, as a man. "

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

" 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. "

" It's in the American spirit to take advantage of an opportunity. "

" My father took me to a lot of sports events as a child, and our TV stayed on ESPN. "

" I'd be a liar if I didn't say I learned things from Jeezy. Hell yeah, I took some things, some pluses and some minuses, do's and don'ts. "