“The real guys that I knew were really cool people, who I played basket...” — Mahershala Ali Quote

The real guys that I knew were really cool people, who I played basketball with and traveled with on teams and knew their families and knew that they love their family. They just happen to do something that wasn't all the way legal, but it was a part of their life, and you knew that they hustled.

I have to say goodbye to things in order to take on bigger things that I've always wanted to do.

I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.

Like so many families, we were dealing with limited means. We weren't poor at all, but we had some challenging times financially. When my stepdad got laid off... we were really trying to find our footing for a couple of years.

The cool thing about music is no one can take music away from you, writing wise.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

In the Lamborghini I have to avoid certain roads because of pot holes, and there's nowhere to put my drink, no cup holder. And I'm not going to lie, it looks pretentious. I used to think it was cool to, like, drive it to dinner. Now? Like I really need to be looked at any more.

I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.