“I used to wanna rap like Jay-Z, Now I feel I could run laps around Jay-Z, Nas ain’t seen nothing this nasty, B.I.G. & Pac got it coming when I pass too. You got the mic, I ain’t the one you wanna pass to”

I like to practice being still and I feel like that promotes a lot of positivity.

I treat all my projects the same. They’re all time capsules of where I am at the time and what I’m thinking about.

There are a lot of people in this world that listen to wide ranges of music and there should never be a CERTAIN type of music that any artist should be confined to, in my opinion.

I think L.A. is L.A. I can go anywhere in the world and I’ll just say I’m from L.A. But when I’m there I gotta say I’m from Carson.

I’m not extra’d out. I got a cool little vinyl collection.

Everything is written in my mind, more so due to my lack of vision at this point. After years of vigorous writing, it was more of a challenge to do it without paper or sidekicks. I enjoy a good challenge.

Vancouver is dope, everybody got across the border today.

We’re all different and I respect my difference. I just try to be myself at all times. As long as I do that my music is always going to be different.

The universe bends to a still mind, peace be still.

I’ve been following battle rap for a long time. Me and Daylyt are real cool. We battled on my album, he’s on my album. We did a one round battle on my album and that was just me capturing These Days.

I say ‘cuz’ around Bloods, and I say ‘blood’ around Crips…I’m twisted. Got Mary, got Lucy, got Molly: that’s wifey, girlfriend and mistress.

I’m really focused on These Days and I’m trying to take it as far as I can – I feel like it’s a strong body of work. I just want to give it the ame kind of attention I give all my projects.

Battle rap is a culture. That’s boxing, it’s like boxing.

I have respect for the sport so I will contribute to the sport by encouraging artists .

King Of The Dot is huge; battle rap is huge right now. My first battle that I went to was King Of The Dot – shout out to Lush One.

I’ve been watching battle rap since that time period when Cassidy was hot, Murda Mook and Lux first when at it. That was a very pivotal time in hip-hop.

There was a coming and going of Al Qaeda militants and leaders between Afghanistan and Pakistan for several years.

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it’s very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.

The Taliban had become deeply unpopular and were actually discarded by the Pashtun population almost as quickly as they were in the north. I don’t see the Taliban coming back in any way.

If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming

When people are coming to Krakow and we show them how and where we practice, they are like, ‘Seriously?

Even if I wear jeans, I still wear a blazer and jewelry. I think there is something nice about coming to work and dressing nicely.

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.

And when they don’t get what they want, say, “Okay, sweetheart, yours is coming. Let’s help you get it.” Be there 100% for them.