Jay Rock
When I was 6, 7 years old, I was raised on all the old-school stuff. My momma used to play oldies in the house. That's all my momma used to play around the house was oldies.
I fell in love with rhyming when I turned 13. I was in junior high. I got into it, but I wasn't serious. It was just for fun.
I wanted Jordans, but I had to get Rugged Outbacks. I had to take it for what it was worth, but now I'm able to give back and it feels real good.
When you're a kid, you live carefree. You notice things that go on around you, but you live like a kid with no worries until you get to that certain age where trials and tribulations come and you gotta fight and stay on your toes.
From where I come from, it's gutter, dog. I look back on that and I think, 'That's strong.' Without growing up where I came from, I wouldn't be the man I am today, a strong minded individual.
People planted seeds into me. Older cats gave me the game. My family, especially my mother, gave me the game and I pass it on. That's what it's about. If somebody gives you mental jewelry and you wear it for so long, you want to give it to somebody else for them pass it on.
My mother is home. Your mother is your home. Everybody is a momma's boy or a momma's girl. That's where we came from, from a woman's womb. She always gave me good advice because mothers know best at times. She gives me advice and I take it, run with it and share that with somebody else.
I took it upon myself to give back to my 'hood.
I help my loved ones.
If I could help every ghetto, I would.
I done been to so many funerals.
Growing up in the projects, I've been around music all my life. Marvin Gaye, everything man.
I started writing poetry when I was in the fifth grade, just rhyming in class.
When I was about 17 or 18, I would go through my boy's garage and they had a little studio set up. I would just play around there.
A lot of haters been downing me but I never gave up and that's what the fans love.
My craft's been rising. I'm a student of the game and I'm still growing.
The hood always got my back.
Don't let nobody try to stop y'all from doing what y'all trying to do man.
Whatever you're trying to do, wherever you're trying to go in life, whatever you got your mindset on, stay there.
Never give up, because at the end of it all we all trying to win.
When you're a kid, you live carefree. You notice things that go on around you, but you live like a kid with no worries until you get to that certain age where trials and tribulations come and you gotta fight and stay on your toes. That's when survival instincts kick in.Collection: Kids
The overall message is that no matter what you want to do in life, don't give up.Collection: Giving Up
My mother is home. Your mother is your home. Everybody is a momma's boy or a momma's girl. That's where we came from, from a woman's womb.Collection: Girl
See them demons and them omens staring at you, mind control, they want your soul. If he don't see a dollar, somebody visiting SatanCollection: Soul