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I feel like when you successful, it's more stress 'cause it's more stuff you dealin' with.
I'm going to keep making clothes, I'm going to do more movies, and I'm always going to rap.
Def Jam was always trying to get me to put out an album because I had 'Toot It and Boot It.'
I want to do - I want to be putting out classic stuff that's gonna stick and last forever, you feel me?
Black people love Hispanics; Hispanics love blacks. We grew up with each other. We share a lot of the same stuff.
Me and Mustard the same age, and when we was growing up, he was DJing all the parties, and I was at all the parties.
That's something we real big on - just being real, authentic, being yourself, not letting this lifestyle change you.
Me having my moms and pops in my life and knowing and seeing what they went through for us - it's why I'm a good father.
People look at me like YG the turnt-up dude, hit singles and all that. And, yeah, that's me, but I'm for my people, too.
I just feel like, as time go by, I'm realizing certain stuff, and I see certain stuff not happening. I'm just steppin' up.
It's hard to stay vegan and eat right when you're moving around so much, but I've been off that alkaline water heavy, though.
I can't tell you who to vote for, because you have to do your homework to see who you connect with and see what they're pushing.
My peoples told me they thought I should go talk to a therapist, and I went and talked to a therapist, and we let Vice record it.
I'm experimenting. That was part of the reason why I named the album 'Stay Dangerous.' It was about being proactive, not reactive.
I went to Paramount High School, Mayfair High School, all types of high schools. I'm not a high school graduate, but it's all good.
When you think of YG, you think of the West Coast, L.A., the lifestyle; that's what the brand about. That's what 4Hunnid represents.
I've filmed a lot of my videos in Compton, but filming a movie, we really can't do it because the police will come and shut you down.
Knowledge is dangerous when you're a person of colour. It makes you a powerful individual, and that's what 'Stay Dangerous' represents.
Out of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, I would rather Clinton be president, but just overall, I would rather Obama have a third term.
Before Mustard was even making beats, he was my DJ. He was doing all my shows with me before I was even cracking, back in, like, '08, '09.
On the 'Blacks & Browns' record, it's me and Sad Boy. He's a Hispanic artist, and we're talking about what we got going on with our peoples.
It's not our land; it's not made for us. It's America. That's how it was designed. We came here as slaves. It wasn't designed for us to win.
Footaction saw me swagging, so they reached out so we could do a little collab and talk about my style and the culture and the come-up and all that.
If I was president, you wouldn't be sitting in jail for crimes that's not violent; you wouldn't be doing too much time for crime that's not violent.
I'ma stay consistent. I'ma deliver. And I'ma keep using my platform to uplift people who I feel got what it take or deserve it or just - you feel me?
They try to make it seem like trouble follows me, but since my first album came out, I ain't had nothing happen at my show that had something to do with me.
You've got to do features with the right artists that you can take some of their fans, and their fans start doing their homework and see what you're doing, if they like what you're doing.
'Don't Come to L.A.' is talking about how out-of-towners come to L.A., and they try to start claiming the culture, the lifestyle. And they're really not from it. That's really what's it's about.
I just woke up one morning, and I painted my Maybach red - I wrapped it, matter of fact, red - and I thought, 'I might as well change my album to 'Still Brazy' 'cause I gotta be real with myself.'
I worked on 'Who Do You Love?' for, like, six months, really trying to, like - when I got it, I got it, but I was working on it for a minute cause I never had nothing to it. I couldn't get the flow or nothing. Then I just got it.
I had parties in church halls. My mama knew people that had venues and all that, and I knew a lot of people from forever. I was always popular growing up. She used to get me the spots, and I used to have parties. Probably about 300, 400 people.
In the record business, if you sign an artist that don't really know too much about the business, you can really get over on them in a lot of different ways, so it's a lot of people that don't give artist the game because they're trying to make the most money in the fastest way off their artists.