Born on December 6th

"Everything I do is me. I don't like taking ideas from people unless they're the G.O.A.T."

"Being self-made means putting yourself in position to help others put themselves in position to be successful."

"I can't even lie: Sometimes, I be antisocial."

"Perfecting your craft is one of the main keys in being successful."

"My mom is proud of me. My pops proud of me. Everybody keeps motivating me."

"No matter where I'm at in life, whether I'm in the music industry, rich, poor, everybody need love in their life. Gangsta or not, everybody need love in their life. You can't act too hard about that."

"I look at goals, like, what do I want to do and where do I want to see myself. What position to I want to be in going forward."

"Why do you think my name is Artist? I'm an artist."

"I want to be the next legend."

"Its crazy: my name is Artist, and I dead can't even paint."

"I overloaded myself with work. I give myself work to do so I don't give myself time to chill and have free time to chill with the family as much."

"You can't say I don't sound like a N.Y. rapper - it's because I don't wanna sound like nobody else."

"I'm not really worried about the flashy stuff. I don't got chains and cars. I spend what I need to spend. It doesn't faze me."

"My first mixtape especially - that came from a heartbreak."

"I got so many people that have my number. It's crazy. I just don't feel like texting anybody back after I get, like, 30 text messages in three hours. I just be chilling."

"Every time I step on stage an' see all of the lights or hear fans singing the words to my songs ,it's a surreal moment for me."

"If you listen to me, it's real stories. It's catchy and something you can relate to."

"I'm not really rocking with mixtapes no more. EPs and albums - that's it."

"I was always writing, since I was, like, 12."

"If it wasn't for the Internet, I don't know where I'd be."

"I found my sound through exploring. I was in the studio yelling, going low, trying things, and that's how I found that I have a lot of sounds."

"I used to record songs, like, play the beat from one phone and have another phone recording me and just rap. Moving from that to a studio was like, 'Damn, I never knew I could sound like this.' It was just magic."

"I always looked up to people who did more than just rap or focus on music. I'm inspired by the people who put their different talents to use and turned it into something bigger."

"People's hustle in the Bronx is real."

"I started off throwing out 'Artist.' I made that my first mixtape. Then, I threw out 'TBA,' which means 'To Be Announced.'"

"Everybody was always telling me to rap and freestyle. I used to go to the park and spit on the mic. If I go to the park, they always gonna give me the mic."

"Me and Thugger could make nine songs in a day and then choose which songs we like the most and think is gonna do something. With other people, it's like, we pick one song, and we hope it's the one."

"Everybody should start listening to love songs."

"I just wanna be relevant."

"Having a daughter made my music, I guess, more meaningful. It made me see more of life when I had my daughter."