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" I need to get as deep as I can into my own heart to really make people connect and react to the music as passionate as possible. "

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" I always been writing songs since I was, like, six. I was listening to Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Frankie Laine and people like that. I was just in the backyard writing songs. "

" All I can do with my music is try and be a light for people who are in a dark time. "

" As I grew up and really - 22, 23, 24 - I was faced with new problems that were bigger. A lot of them were issues that pertained to people that were super close to me. "

" Imagine if James Brown was your roommate. What? Do you know how much fun you'd be having all the time? Oh my God, he would have you looking the freshest. He would have you doing the funnest stuff for sure, easily. You'd be having the most crackin' parties. "

" The name 'Light of Mine' came from how the album was conceived and what its purpose was in telling my story. I started making it at a time when I was, more or less, in a darker place than usual. "

" I just like blending all the genres together but blending them up in a good way. I try to be as free as I can with it. "

" If I was a spy, I would have a watch that would cloak me in invisibility. "

" Music fills peoples with life. It doesn't have to be a 'happy song.' If you have that one song that relates to you, whether it's a sad song or a gangster song, whatever relates to you the most in that moment, it can literally get you through the day. "

" Pete Rock, CL Smooth, all this East Coast stuff - that's kind of, like, the rappers I first admired. I wanna rap just like them because I just thought they were so hard. I thought their delivery was so crazy. "

" I really like blending two things together that are polar opposites. Because I feel like, in a large aspect, that's kinda like what I am. "

" I try to make things as versatile as possible. Usually, you have to listen to one artist for a certain vibe and another artist to catch the next vibe. I want to make an album that has all of that in there. "

" When you start making music, you start making music at a young age, and for me, I just thought, like, 'Ahh, once you make it, all your problems will be solved, and everything will be fine.' "

" There's nobody taller and cooler than Will Smith. He's the coolest tall person, so I'm trying to be like that. "

" I've been compared to Drake before and Kid Cudi. "

" That was everything to me as a kid. When I'd see someone on MTV, it was like, 'Wow, they're the real deal.' "

" I've been a nerd my whole life. "

" I always tried to pride myself on my versatility - I can't just be the 'iSpy' guy. "

" I heard 'Why,' and I think that's when I first started learning about Jadakiss. "

" I'm not ever going to - ever going to be able to put on chains and become the Migos. "

" Doesn't matter if you're sad or happy. I can be sad, you can be happy; it's all good. That's all I'm saying - let's just be us. "

" I grew up really kind of mixed up. I lived with my white grandparents and mom and got made fun of a lot because I talked like her. "

" When I heard my first rap song and figured out what that was, I kind've stuck to it. I always wanted to be a musician in general, an entertainer. I just started rapping. I never decided, 'Oh, I want to be a rapper.' "

" I just want to reach a point where I have an opportunity to impact the entire world with one song. "

" Kodak is hard. 'No Flockin' is an amazing song. "

" For me, I feel like the most important part of music is the storytelling behind it, and that's my favorite; that's what makes my favorite artists my favorite artists, having the story that I relate to the most and that helps me the most. "

" My style has been compared to someone probably like the Fresh Prince. "

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" People called me sharktooth, Dracula. I got made fun of so much cause I couldn't afford braces. "