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" Ninety percent of the general public aren't gangstas, so all of the rappers aren't going to be gangstas. "

" 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 don't like pre-written raps; I think it makes the song better if you listen to the beat first. In a sense, you have to make a marriage with the beat. I ride the beat, hear the flow of the drums, get the melody of my flow, and then from that point, it's a process of what I want to say. "

" I played wide receiver in high school; then I went to college at Ball State and played safety. "

" Ain't nothin' changed with me. I'm Eastside Gary til I die. "

" Gary is a really impoverished town; it's in industrial decay. There's low employment and things of that nature. "

" Gary is a old factory town right outside Chicago. From my standpoint, my family migrated there in the '50s and '60s from Mississippi - Sardis, Mississippi - shout out to Sardis, Mississippi. My family migrated there just like a lot of black families in that area: they migrated there to get jobs, to get those factory jobs, that steel mill job. "

" I never took a dollar from Young Jeezy. No advance, nothing. "

" I feel like some artists need a record label, and some don't. "

" 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 just want to put my stamp on all kinds of music. Everything I do is going to be gangsta rap, street-based, street-oriented. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Just give me a mic, and I'll rock it. "

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

" I'm so hands-on and involved in my own music that I feel like if I put the same effort into another artist, then I can definitely cultivate something great. "

" Drake makes some dope songs. "

" 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. "

" My mom had me at a young age, like 20, and she was the oldest child. All her brothers were seven and 10, so I was like a younger brother more so than the oldest child. I was the younger brother to all my uncles, so they were going through their childhood and their teenage years, and I was right there. "

" 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 started hustling in early adolescence. "

" 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. "

" 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 tried to watch 'Inception,' but I fell asleep. "

" If you say your product is the best, back that up. "

" 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. "