Everybody should start listening to love songs.Collection: Love
Not everyone's really got the heart to talk about what's going on with their love in their music.Collection: Love
This is the most fun thing in the world to me, making music. Sitting down, I can make songs and not leave the booth, ever, and I love it.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Money
Me and Tory Lanez got good chemistry together. We could make a song so easy, but we always like to figure out what we're really doing. We can make a good song, but it gotta make sense.Collection: Good
Every time I step on stage an' see all of the lights or hear fans singing the words to my songs ,it's a surreal moment for me.Collection: Time
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.Collection: Future
I was raised hearing music everywhere I went.Collection: Music
Getting people to like my music was challenging at first. It's hard to get people to like your music. There isn't a simple formula that automatically makes people like you.Collection: Music
I overloaded myself with work. I give myself work to do so I don't give myself time to chill and have free time to chill with the family as much.Collection: Family
When I was 13, before I got in high school, I was writing mad raps. I didn't really know if it was good or not, so for a year, I just held them. When I got in high school, I started spittin' bars.Collection: Good
I'm not really worried about the flashy stuff. I don't got chains and cars. I spend what I need to spend. It doesn't faze me.Collection: Car
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.Collection: Love
Me and Thugger could make nine songs in a day and then choose which songs we like the most and think is gonna do something. With other people, it's like, we pick one song, and we hope it's the one.Collection: Hope
I don't wanna learn about more science and math. That's not why I'm going to college.Collection: Science
I was inspired to shoot 'Look Back at It' in a high school because I'm like a voice of the youth. When the youth sees me in a classroom, I want them to be inspired to accomplish their dreams. I was just like them in a classroom at one point. It all starts in a classroom.Collection: Dreams
One day, walking through the Bronx streets, I just realized that people were stopping me, taking pictures, and noticing me from across the street. I can't even use public transportation anymore, so I kind of stopped going places and started going straight to the studio, going home, and telling people I can't go anywhere anymore.Collection: Home
I'm not the type of person who makes a lot of songs in a day just to see which one is the best.Collection: Best
'Remember the Time' and 'You Rock My World' from Michael Jackson were two of my favorite songs ever. My mom used to bump them all the time.Collection: Mom
Most of the time, I'm making music. There'll be moments of my life where I feel like I gotta to take a break and come back to the music. It's hard to explain, but you need to get a break from it and then come back to it. It's like you gotta lose something to appreciate it.Collection: Time
My mom is proud of me. My pops proud of me. Everybody keeps motivating me.Collection: Mom
Before I was even famous, I was famous on Facebook.Collection: Famous
Having a daughter made my music, I guess, more meaningful. It made me see more of life when I had my daughter.Collection: Music
I always looked up to people who did more than just rap or focus on music. I'm inspired by the people who put their different talents to use and turned it into something bigger.Collection: Music
You always gonna feel me. That's my main thing. When I'm speaking in my music, you gotta feel me.Collection: Music
Being self-made means putting yourself in position to help others put themselves in position to be successful.
Perfecting your craft is one of the main keys in being successful.
Why do you think my name is Artist? I'm an artist.
Everything I do is me. I don't like taking ideas from people unless they're the G.O.A.T.
I can't even lie: Sometimes, I be antisocial.
If it wasn't for the Internet, I don't know where I'd be.
The album 'Hoodie SZN' is about the result of where I come from: it gave me this black heart. And the black heart represents depression.
A lot of people don't know that: that Artist is my name.
I got so many people that have my number. It's crazy. I just don't feel like texting anybody back after I get, like, 30 text messages in three hours. I just be chilling.
'A' comes from Artist. And 'Boogie' from the Bronx. 'The Hoodie' part came from just having a hoodie on a lot.
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.
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 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.
I just wanna be relevant.
I'm not really rocking with mixtapes no more. EPs and albums - that's it.
I want to be the next legend.
My first mixtape especially - that came from a heartbreak.
Partnering up with the Monster Energy Outbreak Tour marks a milestone moment in my career.
Its crazy: my name is Artist, and I dead can't even paint.
I started off throwing out 'Artist.' I made that my first mixtape. Then, I threw out 'TBA,' which means 'To Be Announced.'
Highbridge - everybody rap in Highbridge; everyone grew up rappin' or playing basketball.
People's hustle in the Bronx is real.
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.