Born on February 4th

"I'm the gorgeous gangster."

"Just growing up in Harlem, it didn't matter what you had to do to get fresh - you would do it."

"It takes more than a botched carjacking to keep me down."

"You can't be going through life expecting everything. You gotta have discipline."

"You gonna ask me who I compare myself to? Nobody. I don't think nobody can really mess with me as far as flyness or anything that I'm doing."

"I wear pink whether the public sees it or not. Whether I had a sneaker or not, I'd still be wearing pink."

"Certain songs bring me back to certain places I've been in my life. So definitely, I listen to my stuff."

"Maybe I beef with people, but it was never random. Anybody you name, I could give you the reason why it happened or whatever led to the beef."

"Seeing Jay Z's just a great example of somebody who comes from a ghetto to rise to where he's at. I think... he done a great job."

"To be honest, the real money is in merchandising and performances."

"I've never started beef with anybody that didn't start with me first."

"I'm Mr. Romance."

"You want to stay grounded, but you need to keep the music growing."

"I listen to 'Purple Haze' a lot. If I'm in the gym, I listen to that album the whole way through sometimes."

"Me and 50 had a conversation. We good."

"When I first started wearing pink, it wasn't nothing I planned on doing or strategized. But people showed me so much love for the pink mink I wore, I had to go out to Pantone and create my own color, which is called Killa Pink."

"You can get away with black sweatpants for a day or two, but pink is something you wear for one day: the day before you go to the washer or cleaners. When people wear pink t-shirts for three straight days, it disturbs me. It aggravates me."

"When I was young, I wanted to be like the rappers. I remember being in junior high and wanting a fisherman hat and a link because EPMD had one. I wanted to wear Adidas because Run-DMC wore Adidas. As I came into my own, I just wanted to do me."

"When I did pink, I did it so I wouldn't be dressing like everybody else."

"There's nothing really to talk about with the police. I mean, for what?"

"I just think that rap takes way more slack than the video games and the movies. We don't make guns. Smith and Wesson makes guns. Like, white people make guns and bullets, and all we're doing is rhyming and putting words together."

"No record company in the world would say, 'We're not promoting if you keep calling somebody a snitch.' They know what makes money. A record company would never be that stupid. Ever."

"I won't just give up anything to anybody because they're waving a gun around."

"I roll with the punches."

"Basically, I want to prove to everybody that I can write music - good music."

"Music is always gonna change; it's just a matter of keeping up with the times."

"If somebody says or does something to me first, then I'll respond, and I go overboard with it, and it seems like I'm the one that has beef with somebody."

"To be honest, sometimes I get in my shell, and I don't want to do stuff, and sometimes I'm real active."

"I'm a caterer, interior decorator - a lot of hobbies people don't know I do."

"I love having my son in my life. That's why it's more fathers in the hip-hop community, because they probably went through a fatherless childhood like I did."