Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about me finishing high school and finishing college.

Some people are so poor, all they have is money.

Everybody's somebody's everything

Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story.

Sometimes the truth don't rhyme, sometime the lies get millions of views, funerals for little girls is that appealing to you?

Whats better than followers, is actually falling in love

Sometimes the truth don't rhyme

Kanye took me from a kid who listened to music to a kid who lived music.

Fame or perceived success - it all comes from groupthink.

Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on who you are from there.

I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it's weird.

Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.

Find your passion and live it!

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

Never, never is it possible to reach someone if you become angry or bitter only love and gentleness can do it. Maybe not this time but maybe the next or the hundredth time.

There were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn't just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking.

I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!

Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.

You fight and fight. Get every ball back, run every ball down and never, ever doubt.

Never knowingly be serious. Rule 27.

I like to write early in the morning, like, 5 a.m. If I'm really on my game, I don't have any coffee or stimulants. I'm kind of in a dream state.