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"I don't wear the see-through shirts or anything too glittery. I come from that '90s school of rap. Fitted caps, because I got a big head, so snapbacks don't fit me right."
"I'm into all types of stuff. I might have on Pumas one day, Givenchy the next. I'd wear this John Elliott sweat suit to the club."
"I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping."
"I don't think about returning to the streets, 'cause I don't have any plans to return to the streets. I'm at another level in my life. Returning to the street - I still be in my streets when I get time to, when it's necessary."
"I'm always gonna be all over my CD the most, of course. My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people."
"I think everybody from Philadelphia been shot at before."
"I just do whatever I feel. Whatever the beat makes me say, I do that and I run with that."
"I think artists should be able to do different things whenever they want and I like the way I am. I'm like - I ain't gonna say the only street rapper, but the only mainstream, new, young street rapper there is right now and I'm doing well with it."
"Management plays a role just keeping everything in place for you and making sure everything's going right."
"Me and Kendrick [Lamar] have different types of music. He from a different coast; we ain't in the same lane."
"When I'm not in the booth, I'm one of the most laid-back guys. But growing up, I liked DMX, Jay-Z, 50 Cent, and T.I. - dudes that went all out on the track. My first songs were energetic because I liked their energy."
"First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest person I admire right now."
"I don't want to just be fully rapping my whole life."
"I watch my YouTube videos over and over."
"When you do 10 interviews in one day, and 10 different sources want to talk to you, that means you're doing good. I think about that every day."
"I have a fan base worldwide, man. I think they're really down for me. That's how I got signed - 30,000 fans retweeting Rick Ross."
"I got into music when I was 12, 13."
"I don't think I would change really anything about rap. Rap don't have no limits to it, and I like it like that."
"I don't know what type of music my son will want. By the time he starts listening to music, really, at like 15, 16, I'll probably have 10 albums out by that time."
"You could be Top 5 on iTunes, but for people to buy an album, they've got to have a connection with an artist. Every time I bought someone's album, it was about the connection. I was loving everything, from their raps to their style. I wanted to meet them."