“I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn’t boastful, but some of it is. But that’s just the music, the art.”

The best advice I have been given is to live in the moment, as cliché as that sounds. It’s crazy.

I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs – that’s what I am.

I feel I can really relate to a lot of young people.

I got a dream that’s worth more than my reality.

Man the life of a workaholic.You either on ya work or just workin on it.

You live and you learn, man. I’ve learned you can’t wait on anybody. You have to raise your awareness yourself.

I get sick all the time because I get no rest and sleep, but it’s definitely worth it.

There are so many people with great work ethics that I’ve been around. I try and take the best qualities from the people I admire and apply it to my own self.

Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give.

I hate all the old pictures of me before 2010 – and they are always the first ones to come up. That’s why I don’t Google myself, man.

Seafood is one of my biggest pet peeves.

I never look at it like I’m wasting money when I’m buying gold.

I ended up getting a lion chain. I had to make my own mascot – I want to start my own dynasty eventually.

Everything I wanted to do was big. I feel like my music is big, the mark I’ma leave in this world is big, so I feel like that’s the perfect name.

I don’t call my people fans, I call them believers, because they go above and beyond.

High ends, high spending. We just trying to end life on a high note.

The patriarchy continues to try to crush my neck with heavy boots, cut off my life force, and take away my voice – even those who call themselves artists, you know who you are.

Gray hair is gods graffiti.

There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.

Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

Space is the breath of art.

The Machine is Intellect mastering the drudgery of the earth that the plastic art may live; that the margin of leisure and strength by which man’s life upon earth can be made beautiful, may immeasurably widen; its function ultimately to emancipate human expression!

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.