Just make good music.

I help my loved ones.

The hood always got my back.

I done been to so many funerals.

I was on Warner Bros. for a minute.

Everybody knows how hard Jay Rock is.

I broke my leg and cracked my pelvis.

If I could help every ghetto, I would.

It is teamwork that makes the dream work.

Hustle like you broke and keep that passion.

I took it upon myself to give back to my 'hood.

When the time right, you might get a Black Hippy album.

It ain't about going backwards. It's about moving forward.

Never give up, because at the end of it all we all trying to win.

I lost a lot of homeboys growing up, a lot of family, at early ages.

We all knew how talented K.Dot is. We knew how dope he was lyrically.

That's what it's about. Bringing unity, so our kids can grow up safe.

We always hear Compton and Long Beach, but Watts is always overlooked.

I worked with Busta back in the days, shoutout to the OG Busta Rhymes.

I remember back in the days my Mom didn't have enough for Thanksgiving.

A lot of rappers were influenced off the West Coast, even from the East.

My craft's been rising. I'm a student of the game and I'm still growing.

A lot of people have been sending me beats, I've just been getting it in.

I started writing poetry when I was in the fifth grade, just rhyming in class.

At the end of the day, I had to learn that it's all about having fun... na'mean?

The overall message is that no matter what you want to do in life, don't give up.

A lot of haters been downing me but I never gave up and that's what the fans love.

That's what Watts stand for, it taught me how to survive it taught me how to be a man.

I been around negativity all my life. To do something positive, it's a beautiful thing.

I was one of those young cats and knuckleheads that was hard headed, that didn't listen.

I've been able to win a Grammy and then to come back and get the key to the city of Watts.

Growing up in the projects, I've been around music all my life. Marvin Gaye, everything man.

I just fell in love with the music, man. The music just took control. It really saved my life.

Anything with music, you got to have inspiration. You got to have inspiration to do good music.

It's everyone's dream to be on a cover of a magazine - you know what I mean? It's like a dream come true.

Whatever you're trying to do, wherever you're trying to go in life, whatever you got your mindset on, stay there.

Kendrick Lamar, he has stood up for peace and love in our community. When he could have just stood up for himself.

Shout out to J. Cole. We come from the same type of struggles. He put the real in his music, I put the real in mine.

One thing I learned about Tech N9ne is just hard work. That dude don't sleep. I ain't ever seen this dude really sleep.

I love women. I love 'em to death, but sometimes you have to be careful. Sometimes these women out here play games, too.

E-40 taught me a long time ago to try different things with my voice, experiment, and only roll with it if it feels right.

I've been hearing what a lot of people been doing and what a lot of people been putting out musically, I've been listening.

I fell in love with rhyming when I turned 13. I was in junior high. I got into it, but I wasn't serious. It was just for fun.

Like, my whole life I've been right here in this zip code, 90059. Regardless of wherever I go I always end up in the same spot.

When I was about 17 or 18, I would go through my boy's garage and they had a little studio set up. I would just play around there.

See them demons and them omens staring at you, mind control, they want your soul. If he don't see a dollar, somebody visiting Satan

With gangs, there could be a positive outlook because it takes the older guys to come school these younger guys on the right roles.

That's what I used to do; I would just go into the studio and just rap. But it's all about coming up with dope concepts and dope hooks.

People like to come support when somebody's gone, people wanna show all the love, but they didn't wanna show the love when he was here.

My mother is home. Your mother is your home. Everybody is a momma's boy or a momma's girl. That's where we came from, from a woman's womb.

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