“No money, no family, 16 in the middle of Miami.”

I started rapping since, like, 14. But I’ve been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard ‘Baby Don’t Cry,’ I’ll never forget.

There’s an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.

There’s a difference between being yourself and being your stereotype.

I think music talks to you on an emotional level, regardless of where you’re from. I guess I related to the tempo of rap, the aggressiveness.

A lot of people heard ‘Murda Business’ and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it’s kind of silly and playful.

People think I’m more wild than I am. I like going to theme parks, play sports or just hanging out with my friends.

My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It’s pretty much all women all the time.

I love musk oil. There’s something about musk that makes it memorable without being overpowering.

No one can break me down. I know my worth and its a beautiful thing.

Once you go great, you never go good..You never go back, even if you could.

T.I.’s my mentor; he’s a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He’s helped me with my career.

Being talked about like a package – I feel like that all the time.

Not every artist is a role model.

For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that’s what art is.

Pledge allegiance to the struggle.

I’m irrational about all things creative and I’m always late!

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.

The character of our country is on the ballot.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.