“It’s honest. I can’t portray to you something that I’ve never been through or something I didn’t watch someone close to me go through.”

I would pick Kendrick Lamar because he is so dope as an artist and I love his hustle and his passion.

I’m not afraid to have the ratchet side because that’s a part of me too. I like to turn up, I am from Oakland.

There are a lot of shows and opportunities to be seen like that.

Everything I do is about setting up for the next. I think that my confidence and belief in myself as well as the music and trusting my judgment of my songs really grew the most.

You last throughout the ages and you’re able to reincarnate your artistry numerous times.

It’s a competitive city, it’s full of just great artists and talent. It gave me the confidence, the passion, the realness I try my hardest to portray, so it has had about 90% influence on me.

I don’t like to veer away from the truth because I think that’s what people have fallen in love with about my music.

He is fearless and the way he comes to the music is like we share the same passion for what we do and with somebody from the West. In my opinion that would be a great collaboration.

I think that I work hard to make my music as a diary for new generations who find out about it years later.

As long as it doesn’t veer away from who I am, I’m down with it.

They can go through the history and see a trail.

I feel that’s why people can connect so well with it because it’s all honest.

I can’t be passionate about something that I don’t understand. In my music.

My music is very raw, it’s emotional, and it’s honest.

Love and heartbreak is something that’s always been a part of me.

But at the same time, there’s still a classy side to me that I’ve seen in Oakland as well.

More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.

A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.

It’s a competitive city, it’s full of just great artists and talent. It gave me the confidence, the passion, the realness I try my hardest to portray, so it has had about 90% influence on me.

I’m dedicated to bringing to life what the author is trying to portray.

I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

You gotta know what you are, who you are and how you want to be portrayed.

A lot of the time, the way it’s portrayed is that I only see women in a sexual way. But I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.

If I look at the message I’m portraying, I think it definitely is be who you are, but be your best you.