Quotes About Determination

My objective has always been to get better, no matter where my ranking is.

I'm not really focused on my ranking.

I've gone through a lot to get here. I'm doing my job. And that No. 1 ranking next to my name says I'm doing my job better than a good percentage of everyone else.

Millennials get a bad rap sometimes about their grit and perseverance.

After the first three or four years of me taking rap seriously, it started to look more promising. I started booking shows and more people were playing my music, so I starting believing this could actually work for me.

My whole life I saw everybody else get shine, I saw everybody else get money, everybody else wanted to rap. I saw them getting record deals and stuff like that. And everytime I saw that it was damn, I can't wait until my time.

If you're broke, you don't want to rap about being broke; you gonna rap about hustling and getting that bread.

The rap game is kinda crazy, so I go with the flow but make sure that I cover my bases and do whatever to make sure I'm good no matter what.

Unless life is one giant rap battle, you don't need to freestyle your way to success.

If I have a rap album I'm dropping, then I want it to be the best rap album.

I had been cut from the basketball team every year. But I was like, 'I can turn it around! Michael Jordan made it!' You see it a lot of times - you'll have an athlete that you love, and then they'll be like, 'I also want to rap,' and you're like, 'Don't do that.' I was that kid.

I really only make my own beats when I feel like I can't wait on somebody, or it's taking too long to get a nice beat to rap on.

My goal for the rap game is just to make a lot of really dope music. That's really where I keep my mindset at: Just being obsessed over making something crazy and new every day.

After I got dropped by Interscope, I knew in my heart that I had to fight back some way or not rap at all. I just took it upon myself to get myself where I needed to be.

I always felt like I had something to prove. It's always been, 'I gotta show them that I can still rap. I gotta show them I can still make a hit or sell out a show.'

I wanted to rap, but I needed beats. I couldn't buy any, so I just made my own.

People used to laugh at me like, 'Hahaha, you can rap? You? We don't believe it!'

Everybody was down on me saying I can't rap, so I wanted to show everybody that I could actually do this. That's what motivated me.

I'm always trying to do every part myself, you know what I mean? I'm trying to sing, rap, whatever. I'm trying to do it all.

I didn't tell anybody that I wanted to rap when I was in high school.

For the moment, I am more focused on classical chess rather than rapid and blitz, as I am hoping to make my move in the classical World championship cycle.

Give me an entrepreneur with a lot of courage, gusto and who iterates rapidly, and I will back that person day in and day out.

I'm a rapper but I'm more of a hustler.

I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.