I want people to really recognize that this is what I am naturally good at: I'm really good at making music and describing your feelings vicariously through my experiences, through my past and my future. I want people to relate to me in multiple ways and be versatile in my music.
I pick and choose what I want to put on what. Instead of just dropping a single, I like putting projects together.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I had to realize that you can't try to get money, support yourself, and grind doing whatchu need to do at the same time. The music is the grind. You really gotta grind. You gotta find your way around. You can't be stuck tryna get there.
My first mixtape especially - that came from a heartbreak.
Being self-made means putting yourself in position to help others put themselves in position to be successful.
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.
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.
I want to be the next legend.
Everybody should start listening to love songs.
You always gonna feel me. That's my main thing. When I'm speaking in my music, you gotta feel me.
Partnering up with the Monster Energy Outbreak Tour marks a milestone moment in my career.
I don't wanna learn about more science and math. That's not why I'm going to college.
My mom is proud of me. My pops proud of me. Everybody keeps motivating 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.
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.
I just wanna be relevant.
