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I just wanna be relevant.
I want to be the next legend.
People's hustle in the Bronx is real.
I can't even lie: Sometimes, I be antisocial.
I was raised hearing music everywhere I went.
Everybody should start listening to love songs.
Why do you think my name is Artist? I'm an artist.
A lot of people don't know that: that Artist is my name.
If it wasn't for the Internet, I don't know where I'd be.
Its crazy: my name is Artist, and I dead can't even paint.
My first mixtape especially - that came from a heartbreak.
Perfecting your craft is one of the main keys in being successful.
I'm not really rocking with mixtapes no more. EPs and albums - that's it.
My mom is proud of me. My pops proud of me. Everybody keeps motivating me.
If you listen to me, it's real stories. It's catchy and something you can relate to.
I don't wanna learn about more science and math. That's not why I'm going to college.
Everything I do is me. I don't like taking ideas from people unless they're the G.O.A.T.
Highbridge - everybody rap in Highbridge; everyone grew up rappin' or playing basketball.
Partnering up with the Monster Energy Outbreak Tour marks a milestone moment in my career.
I'm not the type of person who makes a lot of songs in a day just to see which one is the best.
You always gonna feel me. That's my main thing. When I'm speaking in my music, you gotta feel me.
You can't say I don't sound like a N.Y. rapper - it's because I don't wanna sound like nobody else.
Having a daughter made my music, I guess, more meaningful. It made me see more of life when I had my daughter.
'A' comes from Artist. And 'Boogie' from the Bronx. 'The Hoodie' part came from just having a hoodie on a lot.
Some of my songs are turnt up, but that's just 'cause I have to make 'em like that so the clubs can play them.
Being self-made means putting yourself in position to help others put themselves in position to be successful.
I pick and choose what I want to put on what. Instead of just dropping a single, I like putting projects together.
I started off throwing out 'Artist.' I made that my first mixtape. Then, I threw out 'TBA,' which means 'To Be Announced.'
I'm not really worried about the flashy stuff. I don't got chains and cars. I spend what I need to spend. It doesn't faze me.
Every time I step on stage an' see all of the lights or hear fans singing the words to my songs ,it's a surreal moment for me.
I look at goals, like, what do I want to do and where do I want to see myself. What position to I want to be in going forward.
The album 'Hoodie SZN' is about the result of where I come from: it gave me this black heart. And the black heart represents depression.
This is the most fun thing in the world to me, making music. Sitting down, I can make songs and not leave the booth, ever, and I love it.
'Remember the Time' and 'You Rock My World' from Michael Jackson were two of my favorite songs ever. My mom used to bump them all the time.
I found my sound through exploring. I was in the studio yelling, going low, trying things, and that's how I found that I have a lot of sounds.
I overloaded myself with work. I give myself work to do so I don't give myself time to chill and have free time to chill with the family as much.
Everybody was always telling me to rap and freestyle. I used to go to the park and spit on the mic. If I go to the park, they always gonna give me the mic.
Even though I can't dance, that's, like, the one thing I wished I could do growing up. I used act like I was MJ, doing the moonwalk, tip toes, leg kick, all that.
New York sounds like something that I could really listen to. It's like a vibe; it's a hit song. It's a song that you could listen to in five years and still like.
I got so many people that have my number. It's crazy. I just don't feel like texting anybody back after I get, like, 30 text messages in three hours. I just be chilling.
Getting people to like my music was challenging at first. It's hard to get people to like your music. There isn't a simple formula that automatically makes people like you.
2017 was crazy when I made the 'Freshman' cover 'cause I looked up to it, and I really wanted to be in it. It was motivation for me after that: I kept on going, and I grinded.
I always looked up to people who did more than just rap or focus on music. I'm inspired by the people who put their different talents to use and turned it into something bigger.
Me and Tory Lanez got good chemistry together. We could make a song so easy, but we always like to figure out what we're really doing. We can make a good song, but it gotta make sense.
I was trying to make my name just Artist in the beginning, but it was weird at first, because I wasn't an R&B singer or nothing. Not an R&B singer. I didn't do no melodic songs, none of that yet.
When I was 13, before I got in high school, I was writing mad raps. I didn't really know if it was good or not, so for a year, I just held them. When I got in high school, I started spittin' bars.
Me and Thugger could make nine songs in a day and then choose which songs we like the most and think is gonna do something. With other people, it's like, we pick one song, and we hope it's the one.
No matter where I'm at in life, whether I'm in the music industry, rich, poor, everybody need love in their life. Gangsta or not, everybody need love in their life. You can't act too hard about that.
Hip-hop originated from the Bronx specifically; that means everything. I'm down the block from where hip-hop was born and raised, so I'm glad I am here and I'm able to represent New York the way I am.
I used to record songs, like, play the beat from one phone and have another phone recording me and just rap. Moving from that to a studio was like, 'Damn, I never knew I could sound like this.' It was just magic.