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" I'm in competition with myself, and I'm always going to challenge myself. "

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" I think doing a record with B.B. King allowed me the opportunity to blend two different generations across the board and make a song that I hope is extremely impactful. "

" I'm thankful for all the support I've received over the years. "

" Everyone needs a lay-up at some point in life - just somebody to look out, something good to happen in your life to kind of push you forward. "

" I have to feel like my grandmother was my first mix engineer. "

" It's a lot of people that died for me to have the opportunity that I have now, just the freedom. It shouldn't be forgotten as far as the past is concerned. "

" Where I'm from is humble, and people are mad appreciative of what they have. "

" I always revisit duality because I think it's a conflict we all have. I think we all leave our house and go to work, and we put on the cape and become superheroes. That's what we do. It's how we move through life and handle negativity: you do everything you can to stay away from it. "

" I think us, especially as black people, we don't necessarily talk about our feelings enough or talk to someone about our feelings. "

" It seems like music gets put in this hub where you have to rap about this, and the minute you do something else, it's like you changing. Nah, I'm being creative. "

" With some of the samples that I chose to use, tracking down the person that owns the publishing has become a task. "

" I always wanted to prove myself. I think I naturally can't help but want to do something and push the boundaries. "

" Adele was introduced to me by a guitarist named Mike Hartnett that plays for a band called Rehab. We was just riding around, and he was like, 'Man have you heard this soul singer Adele?' and I was like 'Nah!' and we just rode to the whole CD, and it got to 'Hometown Glory,' and I was like, 'Man I have to sample that!' "

" I love tearing people's speakers up. "

" People know, lyrically, I go in, and you should never take me lightly on any record. "

" I never lost my faith. "

" In my house, I don't just always listen to rap. "

" Sometimes you think you didn't win, and you focus so much on that instead of really looking at it from the perspective of it not being your time yet. "

" There's no real network, and every city in Mississippi is so spread out, so it isn't easy to drive around and pass out CDs. So when an artist from Natchez or Gold Coast or Meridian breaks out, they already know exactly what kind of artist they want to be. The grind and the hustle is just so adamant. "

" I think if I wanted to get to a point where I could actually grow in my music, I had to almost step away from sampling so much and start making the kind of music that people wanted to sample. "

" With music, it's a therapy for me. So whatever I'm dealing with at the time, I talk about it when I rap. "

" My music's gonna evolve as I get older. "

" People will reach out because they know I'm trying to put my best forward when it comes to subject matter and creation of song. "

" People don't necessarily expect singles from me. They expect full bodies of work. "