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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" I wanted to be in the NBA. I wanted to be in the NFL. "

" We have good, neighborly people in Gary. "

" I had a nightmare that I was mopping floors and that this Freddie Gibbs thing was all a dream. "

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

" Sports is one of the keys to my life. It definitely kept me out of a lot of trouble and gave me a lot of discipline. "

" Coming up in America in the '80s and '90s, we were not too far removed from slavery. People forget that. "

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

" I don't really know what a debut album is no more. As long as you got music on the streets, you've debuted. "

" 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. "

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

" Jeezy just recognized my grind, and I jumped on board with him to enhance it. Artistically, we're in the same mind frame. We come from very similar backgrounds - poverty. That's something that we can both relate to, something that we can convey in our music. "

" I'm trying to bring gangster rap back to the forefront, like in the early '90s. "

" 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. "

" Nobody else was saying what he said on air, and sometimes he pushed the envelope when he said the newest Jay Z line with a Michael Jordan highlight. But Stuart Scott was an artist. "

" I have a respect for Young Jeezy. But the reason things didn't work out for me and Young Jeezy was because our approach to the industry... My approach to the industry was a tad bit different than his. I wanted to approach my career a different way; he wanted to go a different way. "

" I think that with me and Madlib, I was never afraid to really experiment with his tracks and things. "

" The things I rap about are 100 percent real. But at the same time, I don't rap about those things to tear my city down. I give you the reality of what it is and what I been through and how it is living in those conditions in Gary, Ind. "

" A lot of improvisation and freedom went into 'Pinata.' "

" I'm cool with doing shows with 2,000 people. I don't have to rap in a stadium. As long as I can provide for my family and my art and live comfortably and live well, then I'm good. "

" I'm not trying to obey the rules of radio. "

" 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 never write a song before I get the track because I just feel that I have to make a marriage with that track with my raps. And if it's something that's already there, it ain't gone really fit, I don't think. "

" I think that 'Pinata' album is going to stand the test of time. It's going to be a moment in hip-hop, whether people know it or not. It's nothing else like that in rap. It's going to forever hold its place. "

" I'm not really comfortable with being on songs with cats I don't really know. "

" 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. "

" I ain't never detached myself from Gary. "

" 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'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. "

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