The American rapper and entertainer has lived enough for two lifetimes. He has been in and out of prison, escaped poverty, struggled with depression, converted to Islam and he is still only 31. Primarily know for his “confessional anthems”, the rapper speaks straight from the heart. Take solace in the story of his life and his lyrics and let him remind you that no matter what you are struggling with, you can fight your way back.
Whatever an individual chooses to do with themselves, long as it doesn’t affect me and they’re respectful with it, I don’t care what they do. Because I’m not perfect and I have flaws, so who would I be to be judgmental?
Anything lost, can be found again, except for time wasted
A vision without action is merely a dream
Action, it’s the grind, it’s the hustle, it’s the persistence.
A vision without action is merely a dream
Action, it’s the grind, it’s the hustle, it’s the persistence.
Wise men change, fools stay the same.
I’ve had good times and I’ve had bad times and I reminisce, maybe when I lay down, but throughout my day I keep myself engulfed in whatever moment I’m in because it could steer me into a depressed state.
Why accept failure when success is free?
Everybody round you pretendin that they your partner, let you have a problem they won’t even help you out.
Emotionally I’m an introvert but it come off as aggression.
The ones that hate you most tend to be the people you know.
Loves a battlefield it’s not a one night stand.
Never break or fold, that’s what it takes to be major.
If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you’re destined for failure.
My daily conversation, it consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of struggle.
It is illegal to steal my feelings and leave.
I don’t have a religion. I ain’t nothing wrong with church as long as they selling chicken. Cause I read the Quran, I read the Kabalah, I read the Bible. They all got the same three basic principles: Love God, love your neighbor as yourself, and…As far as me being, I live by those principles.
Out my window.. I see everything I dream about and wished I had.
When you come up in the slums, having nothin make you humble.
Bein logical gave me a reason to doubt.
Some may consider this a problem, I easily fall in love.
Knowledge is provided but only to those who need to know.
To be honest I am not lookin to be romantic, already got someone at home.
The things that are most difficult for me to put into words and speak about, I put into my music. I’m just super passionate about my craft and super passionate about what I do.
It’s about really really being who you are as an individual and not apologizing for it, that’s what it is. I can feel the growth from my first mixtape to now. On every song, I want to give you a piece of who I am as an individual.
You can’t make everybody else happy and still stay on top.
If I tell the truth about me, what can the world say? I’d love to be accepted, but I’m not seeking acceptance. If you are a fan, it’s because you’re a fan of who I am psychologically, emotionally, and individually. The world can relate to a human being more than it can relate to a superstar.
I’ve always stood on my own two. I don’t need a team. I don’t do the entourage thing, 30 people. I don’t do that. That’s just not me.
When you got wisdom and knowledge you supposed to spread the world wit some soulja love.
Wealth is not of the pocket. It’s of the heart. It’s of the mind. I live like that. You could give me a fish and feed more for a day, but if you teach me to fish, you’ve fed me forever. So that’s really my philosophy with it all.
Without an understanding of bad…how can one truly have an appreciation of good.
If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you’re destined for failure.
I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.
Anything lost, can be found again, except for time wasted
A vision without action is merely a dream
Action, it’s the grind, it’s the hustle, it’s the persistence.
A vision without action is merely a dream
Action, it’s the grind, it’s the hustle, it’s the persistence.
I’m a perfect imperfection
My craft has been perfected
I just need affection, emotionally
I’m an introvert but it come off as aggression
My craft has been perfected
I just need affection, emotionally
I’m an introvert but it come off as aggression
Seem like codeine is the one thing that help take my mind from the lies.
Every time the leaves are changing it’s the loneliest time of the year.
I don’t pay attention to sales because it’s not about that for me. It’s about the music. Music is all I have. I suffer from depression. Severe cases of it. Not one case of depression, not a severe case, but severe cases of depression. Music is my only outlet, it’s therapeutic to me. It’s a release. It’s how I vent emotionally. So it may come out as anger on one song, it may come out as sad on one song, it may come out as happy on one song. Whatever I’m feeling at the time, that’s how I vent. I vent through my music. That’s the only outlet I have. And getting tattoos.
I’ve had good times and I’ve had bad times and I reminisce, maybe when I lay down, but throughout my day I keep myself engulfed in whatever moment I’m in because it could steer me into a depressed state.
The energy in the daytime is so different because everyone is so unhappy and depressed and you can pick up on that energy psychokinetically. So I like to come out at night. Everything’s settled, you can see more.
Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some of the individuals that did a lot of the wrong things with the right intentions.
Even though you are in the lime light and in the spotlight you are not immune to what could go on so I’m going to use my situation and grow from it…Trouble is like cancer you gotta’ stay away from it, if you don’t it will spread.
I’m talking about from the psychological aspect of it all, you know in this business, most of the rappers that I grew up listening to, upon meeting them they were weirdos…too hard for they self, trapped within the confines of masculinity.
Any artist that’s as serious about making music as I am, I’m cool with that. But if you tellin’ me, “Man, send me a verse and I’m a send you a verse.” No. That’s not collaborating. We don’t know each other and I’m serious about this music.
Don’t get mad at me for being the best of what I was created to be.
I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.
I suffer from depression. Severe cases of it. Not one case of depression, not a severe case, but severe cases of depression. Music is my only outlet, it’s therapeutic to me. It’s a release. It’s how I vent emotionally.
Money coming, money gotta flip it. I ain’t waiting on nobody, I’mma go get it.
I came in the game with a different attitude than I have now. And I had to grow. I had to mature. In that growth and in that maturity, that point of maturity I realized that ay, the people that interview me, we really only having a conversation. And they not from the same walk of life that I am, so my life is super interesting to them.
I live by the ten percent rule. Save one, you save a thousand.
I can’t say any artist inspired me, because I’m inspired by the things that go on around me.
You can learn from a dummy. You can watch a dummy and learn what not to do. I’ve always been an observant individual. You don’t know how much you love something until you can’t do it. That’s one thing I can say that I learned. I learned how much I love music.”
Breathing is so important with physical activity, then how much more important is it with psychological activity?
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