There are certain fans who want me to rap about the same exact thing, but it's time to grow up.

For those of you familiar with me, you know I'm the last person to chase publicity or attention.

I'm just living life and enjoying it. Alive, kicking, and doing good. That's what a real winner is.

I just try to be more creative and come with something new because I actually care about the music.

Timbaland uses a lot of Indian music and that has certainly familiarised me about the music of India.

Even if I did work with a big producer, you try not to do the same kind of records as everybody else.

I couldn't make every song about Texas because it wouldn't be new; it wouldn't be a breath of fresh air.

When people say they can't find African-American startups to invest in, it just sounds a little crazy to me.

I feel like people, when it comes to music, whatever genre, they relate to the story more than just the song.

I didn't want to be one of these rappers that holds his chain up just faking like he has money. I wanted more.

Dumb nerd, scratch everything you already done heard I could go platinum if my album wasn't more than one word.

If I was to leave home without my wallet and my iPhone, and I could only go back and get one, I'd grab my iPhone.

I know that the fans are also very responsible for an artist's success and feel like they deserve to be recognized.

I used to try to get revenge on the critics, but now I realize I've already won, and it doesn't matter what people say.

Just like so many other people out there, I don't want to sit on the sidelines, I want to do the most that I can to help.

If you're a humble person, and you walk in, and you start talking, people are going to be able to tell. You can't fake it.

Don't listen to much country music, you know, but I know a little bit though. My sister listens to a little bit of country.

I just sit there and try to think of stuff that I could do that's a little different but still not step outside of who I am.

I was one of the first rappers to have his own forum. Then 50 Cent made 'Thisis50.com,' and everyone made sites just like it.

I love that with a lot of my favorite records, I couldn't tell you the sales on them, like Scarface or some of the UGK albums.

I try to keep the music fresh in my head. And I don't always listen to rap; I listen to a little bit of everything: R&B, rock.

I was never really like, 'Oh, I wanna be famous,' you know, 'I wanna be a big rapper.' I mean, I love rap, but it wasn't just fame.

I kind of always thought that I had a good ear for melodies. I think in terms of melody. I can just be walking and I'll hear a melody.

I don't want to be the guy that's sitting here, calling somebody and telling them their dream. I want to be in the seat of the founder.

Eminem's rhyme patterns are super dope and he can squeeze a million words in a couple bars. Crazy creative. His voice changes alot though.

I am a career artist. A lot of people come by and they fly by night, but I'm gonna prove that I can stay in the game and have some longevity.

My biggest obstacle is trying to keep the music pure to what I want to release. I don't want any corporate suit telling me what story to tell.

Everybody's out there trying to be somebody else. Even the good guy's trying to be the bad guy, you know? Just be yourself, man. I think that works.

When I get home and turn on the radio, I hear songs that are new to me, but to everybody else they're old. I try to keep the music fresh in my head.

Sometimes I ask at concerts, how many of you are on Twitter, and the crowd goes crazy. Then I ask about Facebook, and the crowd goes even more crazy.

Snoop Dogg has this larger than life image which is so not true because when you meet him in person he's so humble, loves his kids and enjoys his life.

I named my first album 'The Sound of Revenge' because I wanted to get revenge on everyone who doubted me. But when I finally got revenge, I didn't enjoy it.

We as rappers have a job and have to get fans music and let them know about stuff that's coming out. So if everyone migrates to Twitter, that's where we go.

It's an honour to have been invited to perform in India for 'Vh1 Hip Hop Hustle.' This only reconfirms the impact Hip Hop culture and music has made globally.

There are musicians who wait all their lives for this award while for me it came with my first album. People have started acknowledging my work because of the Grammy.

I walked around the music industry for a bunch of years, right? I saw a lot of rich people. I didn't see wealthy. I got into the tech industry, I see wealthy every day.

When I'm riding in a car, I don't really listen to music. I turn the radio off and just be thinking, brainstorming. I'm one of these people that just like to brainstorm.

There are a lot of people that have great ideas that want to create disruptive companies that change the world but everybody doesn't have the skills to be able to do that.

It would be crazy for me to come out now talking about selling drugs and doing all this stuff I never did for the sake of A&R or records or trying to keep the street buzz or whatever.

The reason why we decided to put the focus on minority and women-funded startups is because this demographic of companies and founders is just underrepresented, they're under-invested in.

I want to do more to create more awareness so that the people in our communities aren't just thinking that you just got to be a basketball player or a rapper, because that's what I thought.

The streets and the industry are two different things. You could be one super-hot artist in the streets, and you could walk into a corporate building, and people would be like, "Who are you?"

When I get to the stage, I don't get no kind of weird feeling when everybody starts screaming. It doesn't make me feel superhuman or anything. Me, I never really wanted to be famous like that.

Every underground artist has that little chip on his shoulder, like "I'm stuck here, and I'm trying to get out of this little hole that I'm in." You've got this core fan base, but it's limited.

You can learn how to code today. You can build this same thing that you're looking at every day, that you're tweeting on, that you're snapping on, and I feel like that conversation needs to be had.

If I asked you something about basketball and you don't really know about basketball and you try to talk it and fake it, I'm going to be able to tell. It's the same way about music; you have to be real.

People always put you in a box as a rapper, especially when I get up on a panel and start speaking, and I start speaking when I got some sense. They're like, 'Oh, well, I didn't expect him to have sense.'

Some people don't have to be on the screen all day and they could be making interest on so many different things and making money. I look at people like that. Those are the kind of entrepreneurs I look at.

You have to stay focused because a lot of things will break your confidence. But if you stay focused and want it bad enough you can achieve. I know that sounds like a PBS special, but it's true, straight up.

Me and a few others like Big Boi from Outkast and Trey Songz were excited about the ride-sharing space. This was around 2014, we started making the steps to get in touch with Lyft and did our investment in 2015.

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