“I know I do swag rap also, but I also take it seriously. It’s like 50-50.”

There’s really nobody who taught me how to dress.

I have a song called ‘Young Voorhees,’ because I like to call myself the new Jason Voorhees, and it samples ‘Courage the Cowardly Dog.’

I’m gonna keep Very Rare as a street brand. I wanna make a new clothing brand and group. It’s gonna be more… high fashion.

You have to be strong for people when you don’t wanna be strong. You have to be clean-showered, clean, clean-cut for people. You have to set an example.

I hate anything that seems like something that has been done.

Timbaland is my favorite producer.

I want to make people have fun again and show people that people can just rap and snap.

I don’t like being categorized as a rapper. I make music; I don’t just rap.

I used to really like Method Man and Redman for some reason. And Fabolous. A lot of New York rappers, too. Cam’ron. Jim Jones. Hurricane Chris.

I don’t want to ever be categorized. I want to be able to hit every genre.

I want to make theme-setting music, music that sets a theme without being cliche.

Every time before I go on stage, I’m nervous.

One thing that I do want to say is Drake, as an artist, anybody has to respect him. He’s in the game, and he’s been in the game – he has longevity, even if he doesn’t write or writes his music.

If you see somebody dressing like me, you know they’re purposely trying to dress like me because I dress like nothing.

Music changed my life in so many ways.

At the time me and X met, we weren’t homeless, but we were basically homeless.

I wanna make music that I feel proud of when I’m onstage, that I feel like I put my all into.

On the show [the Voice] I obviously wasn’t allowed [singing my own original music], because it’s not that type of show. I think it’s really cool that I get to do my own thing now.

Music doesn’t tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That’s what it told me.

I ain’t makin’ music for the media. I make music for the people in the streets – that want a street level of entertainment. I’m makin’ music because I have the streets to feed.

What I try to push and promote is peace through the whole music industry.

I just change with the times. I really don’t have a say in what’s going on. Music was here before me.

I was thinking about naming my child Kanye.

When I’m not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.