“When I began to rap, I wasn’t taking it real serious. As I start seeing good things, it’s getting serious.”

Death can happen anywhere, but kids in Chicago, like 4 years old, can get shot. You don’t really hear that in too many places.

I would say I grew without a doubt. My whole energy in life – as an artist and as a person – has definitely got me smarter and wiser.

The trenches don’t love me but I love the trenches I know it’s weird.

Everybody always going to sound like somebody. You got to separate yourself.

My message is just showing people how I came from nothing.

Put your own twist to it. That’s how you say relevant. Or things get old and boring.

I’m happy with the person I become.

Nobody got your back like you do remember that.

I have three kids, and that’s a big part of staying focused.

I’m really living my dream so if I were to change anything up, I probably wouldn’t be where I am.

I listen to different artists. I open my mind to different artists.

I’m just trying to show people that I ain’t gotta ride off no movement. I can ride off myself.

Niggas want to kill me and y’all still wit em and y’all chill wit em and y’all wonder why we not friends.

I use the studio as my drug. That’s where I relieve everything at – the studio.

I just wanted to speak to the streets and give them motivation on making it out. Whatever situation they’re in, know that they can make do and have a better life.

You got to have a strong mind if you fall back. When you fall back, they going to count you out. So you got to have a strong mind and know your worth. When you come back, you’ve got to be different and even more better.

But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.

The title is the first thing that I have. Then when I have that title, I have to make sure that the title is like, so I have to make sure I can tell a whole story from that one title and like make sure that it, from beginning to end it makes sense.

Every boss started as a worker.

We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.

You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.

If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.