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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 think whenever you're around Kanye, you gotta take notes. The advice is taking notes, because everything he does and everything he says is very detailed and very up front. He's always one hundred what he says. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Girls grab me all the time. To me, that's regular, so it's not really crazy. "

" I think, whatever makes you happy in life, you gotta do it. You can't plan in life too much. "

" The best career advice I've gotten is to stay focused, keep moving forward. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Music changes every three months. There's always new artists coming out. There's always new sounds. There is always a new hit coming out. You gotta stay relevant as much as you can and feed your fans as much as you can. "

" 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 can make any type of music, so I wouldn't want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think music is about keeping it diverse. "

" 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. "

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

" As long as you know yourself and you got good people around you and you passionate about what you do, that's all that matters because at the end of the day, you go to sleep with the people you love, you wake up with the people you love, and you spend your time with the people you love. "

" 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.' "

" I don't follow trends. I'm a trendsetter. I represent all the younger generations; fly kids, creative kids - they look up to me. I got a program that's called ROAR. I go to all high schools everywhere we go, and I talk to all the kids, and I give away 30-35 tickets and passes to the kids doing good in school. Stuff like that means a lot to me. "

" The frustrating part of being an artist is that I can do a whole interview, and all most people are going to see is the headlines. As artists, we should be able to write our own headlines. "