What inspires me is the desire to be on. The desire to be successful. The desire to reach people through my music and make a living off it and never have to do anything else. Being able to do music full time and travel the world and share this music with everybody. That's the dream.Collection: Dream
Success is just being able to do what I love for a living, spend all my time doing it, connect with fans, and continue that for a long f - king time.Collection: Kings
Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.Collection: Dirty
I always think I'm going to record a lot on tour but it's always hard to fit it in the schedule, and there's a whole lotta' other extra curricular activities that happen on the road.Collection: Thinking
Thing is, I wasn't in the library, didn't study too much, didn't get the best grades, but honestly, I didn't party a lot either. I stayed in a lot.Collection: Party
I'd have to say the best part of being successful is being able to take care of my mom so she never has to worry about anything again and also being able to put my friends and people I care about in positions to win.Collection: Mom
I've never had a car. Like I can drive, but I'm always at the risk of killing people.Collection: People
I want to tell every fan that I appreciate them with a retweet or reply but I don't want my account to lose my own tweets. I don't my fans to have to go through a bunch of replies to get to my own tweets right? In the big picture though I do read all of the tweets and I appreciate all of my followers and my fans.Collection: Appreciate
If you're not putting enough time into the music, there's not gonna be a whole lot of it. So in my eyes, success is just being able to do what I love for a living, spend all my time doing it, connect with fans, and continue that for a long f - king time.Collection: Kings
I suppose sometimes the lack of privacy can be a little hard to deal with at times.Collection: Littles
I just always wanted a platform. In the past, I always dreamed of having a following and a fan base - you know, a group of people just listening and paying attention to what I was making. I think the reality kicked in that you have to make a living so that you have enough time to keep creating, you know? 'Cause if you're not making a living at this, then you're making a living working another job, and if you're working another job, you're spending all your time doing that and can't put enough time into the music.Collection: Jobs
I was 14 years old when I started rapping and I was terrible. I fell in love with it though and when that happens with me I become super passionate and go all the way with it.Collection: Rap
I just want to make music that matters, that people will remember for a long time.Collection: Long
I think any time you're at the end of a trip you're usually pretty ready to come home and start working regularly again.Collection: Home
Whenever I perform I try to connect with the crowd and give off energy so when they walk away from the show its remarkable and its something they talk about it, like 'damn I cant wait to come back to my show.'Collection: Giving
Sometimes when you meet stars, on one hand you're like, "You're who I'm inspired by, you're who I look up to." On the other hand you're like, "I wanna be in the same kind of shoes that you're in." That's how I've always seen myself. Some of me is star-struck, some of me feels like I'm looking at a peer. They're another person who sees the world the same way I do, who already did it. It's inspiring.Collection: Stars
I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around.Collection: Artist
I didnt grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, Ive never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.Collection: Growing Up
I think it's important to say something. If you're making music it's kinda' like, oh, cool, so is everyone else.Collection: Thinking
A song or an album is never really done. You can work on it forever, but knowing when to call it a day and knowing when to walk away from it is extremely important.Collection: Song
The biggest thing for me is the new music. I'm playing a lot of new music that is not released yet on my tours. Seeing the reaction to that is super inspiring.Collection: Reactions
I've matured as a person and so has the music... It's gotten more sophisticated and interesting I think.Collection: Thinking
When you're choosing the track list and the sequencing, it's important to make sure that there's some strong concepts on there and that it matters and it says something... that it sticks with people.Collection: Strong
Anybody can have a great album in themselves but it's not until you bring it out and put it into tangible form and creating it and working on it in the studio that all of that comes to life you know what I mean?Collection: Mean
If I didn't make a single song in two months, I'm slippin'. You can't just party every night.Collection: Song
I am involved in every step of the process [musicmaking]. Whether it is the production or the mixing or the visuals and music videos. I'm involved in every step of the way as far as the creative, directing and merchandise . Just making sure everything that falls in line with my brand is portrayed a certain type of way. It all about quality control and attention to detail, and making sure anything you put your name on is on point.Collection: Fall
A great song can come from anybody. A great performance can come from anybody. It doesn't matter who you are, and that's truly what I believe.Collection: Song
I don't come to Toronto often, so when I'm there it's always special and rare which I think makes it very exciting for my fans.Collection: Thinking
I stuck with my education, you know, I really did that for my grandma. It meant a lot to her that I finished school and in the grand scheme of things it was her who had saved and helped provide for me this opportunity to go to school.Collection: Grandma
Toronto is amazing, it's one of my favourite cities to visit. Toronto and Montreal are just super dope places.Collection: Dope
It's a really good time for California right now in music.Collection: California
If you think about rap and how it has become so much easier to record music and release it, and you think about everyone in the world being a 'rapper' these days, it's so much easier. But it's still as hard as ever to break through and truly be successful in this industry.Collection: Rap
When you put a tour together you really just think about who you'd like on your bill, who would make sense and who you would want to live with basically for a couple months and be around with and work with.Collection: Couple
In a sense, touring is crazy. You go city to city playing the show over and over again. But there's something magic about being in front of people, so it's not like going through the motions every night. It's a different experience.Collection: Crazy
I think the special stuff [music] still finds a way to be heard, as long as you pair it with a good release strategy.Collection: Thinking
There's a crazy energy in Toronto. I think some of that may be from being a border from where I'm from and being so close.Collection: Crazy
I'm on this raised-platform-stage and I'm put on display, but at the same time I'm just a human. I'm just a regular person at the end of the day and, you know, I just want them to know that I do appreciate every single one of them.Collection: Appreciate
Music meant more to me than a social life and just hangin out. haha just being tired of repacking my suit case every couple of days, and anytime i wanted to cop some new clothes i would have to throw away something I had to make room in the suitcase.Collection: Couple