All the smart money got they bets on me And all the real niggas wish the best for me.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.

From the beginning of my rap career, since I was seen and heard, I always had a store.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can't take steps toward whatever your goal is.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

Look at Pusha-T. He makes a certain type of rap music. 'Daytona' is that on the highest level.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I'm trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

If you 35, 28, or 30 years old, and you decide you're gonna pick up a rag and start bangin', and you can look yourself in the mirror and you still feel like you're a man? That's cool, do your thing.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

People that's in power -- the central banks, these fiat currencies that are traded globally -- they got influence over the messaging and the narrative in the media.

'Victory' is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It's just about reaching a place in myself.

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.

I'm not in it for fame. I've been famous in the streets already.

I think that every artist -- or anybody that's in business -- could benefit from a direct-to-consumer strategy, so I think that that applies to us as artists and content creators, too.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

I get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk.

I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

I knew 'Crenshaw' had elevated me and distinguished me.