
I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.”ĩ. “Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. “My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family-and I come from a big family.”Ĩ. So I was being exposed to all these ideas, from Big Daddy Kane to Eazy-E to the Bay Area-Too Short, E-40-you know, back to Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers.”ħ. So the things that they played-you know, that was the hip crowd. “My parents were fairly young in the city of Compton. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.”Ħ. “The way people look at me these days-that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.”ĥ. “My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.”Ĥ.



I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, and how huge Pac got. “From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. “I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.”Ģ.
