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" I make negative music, but I also make positive music because that's what thrown at me with life. "

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" I've always been into dressing and being stylish because I feel like that's where I gained a lot of my confidence and swag as a rapper, so fashion goes hand-in-hand with music to me. "

" Sour Patch, Swedish Fish. I love candy, man. I can't go without candy. And when I'm recording, I always have a TV on with cartoons - on mute, though. When I'm recording, I like to look at the TV now and then and see some crazy, wacky stuff. When you're thinking creative, it just keeps you creative. Everybody got their way of making music. "

" Fame is a thing that happens when you do something you love - nobody wants to be famous for the wrong reasons. It's not my goal, but if being more famous means I can get more music out, that's cool. "

" You can't live for other people, you know? You gotta live for yourself and better the people around you and make an impact. "

" I'm a creative person, and I've got a lot of ideas. People probably thought that my mentality was quick fame because I made 'Rack City' and it blew up fast, but I have over 1,000 songs recorded. "

" I never grew up in the Valley. I lived in Compton/Gardena my whole life. "

" There are so many artists that inspire me, it's honestly too many names to go through. I look up to people who've been in the game for years. "

" When something is so damaged or something is just not right, you can't fix it in a moment. The only thing is time. "

" I'm making music that I love and I want to hear. At the same time, things like making money, making crazy money - you gotta find ways to reach to everybody but uplift everybody. "

" You can't base your life off waking up every morning, like, 'What are people saying about me now?' Then I'd never stay in my creative headspace. "

" I never wanted to be that fad type of artist. When I looked up to artists, watching TV, I wanted to see somebody. I wanted to touch that person. I wanted to sound like them. I wanted to move like them. That' s what I want my fans to do. So that's why, everything that I do, the music I make, how I dress, it's all based off my lifestyle. "

" I'm just not a messy person... I don't look for pleasure in social media. "

" Making music is like being the president: You can't tell people you're going to make health care free to get them behind you, but when you get that role, you don't do it. "

" I would say I'm a fan of late '90s to early 2000s rap. That's where I get all my inspiration from. "

" Tattoos, for me, are like a timeline of my life. I could look at a certain tattoo, and it reminds of me of a certain time in my life and why I got that tattoo. "

" I'm definitely inspired by Michael Jackson. I watch all his videos all the time. And Busta Rhymes, early Busta Rhymes - I really was inspired by him. He's really the reason why I started rapping. Because all his visuals. I loved his videos when I was younger. "

" I don't really know how it feels to hate on somebody else or just worry about what somebody else is doing. "

" When I go home and get off tour, I'd like to have a peace of mind. I like to chill. I don't like everything to be all chaotic like how it is when I step outside, you know? "

" I only like people to know what I want them to know. People didn't know what Tupac was doing. That's why he was so iconic. "

" Alexander Wang, Saint Laurent, Balmain, and Goyard are my designers of choice. "

" I had faith that music would be able to take me somewhere. I didn't know where. I just was like, 'Keep having faith, and any doors that open, I'll walk through them and see what happens from there.' "

" You go to Miami, and you might only hear one Tyga song on the radio. You go to L.A., and you might hear six or seven on the radio. There's certain things you do for your city. "

" I've always treated my career like independent. Everything that I got is because of myself, my own endorsements, my own touring myself. "

" A lot of people don't know I'm from the West Coast. My swag is different. Me being from Young Money, affiliated with them, some people think I'm from down South. They think maybe I'm from New Orleans like them. It's just good to show people and build outside of Young Money, build my brand outside of that. "

" God puts us in places. It's for you to make the decision whether you go left or right. "

" There's not a lot of pretty, young female artists that's out. It's a lot of talent out there, but they don't know how to go about it. I feel like there should be way more sexier women in hip-hop and R&B then it is - more originality. "

" A lot of my fans know that I love candy. I eat candy all day. "

" I try to be cool with everybody, but sometimes, everybody just has different personalities, motives, and different characters. "

" I dropped out of high school when I was, like, 15, so I just focused on doing music. It's all I wanted to do; I didn't want to work or anything else. I took all the negativity and obstacles that came with life, and I just put it in the music. "