Quotes About Rap

I'm the only artist who got paid by Puff, like really, really, paid.

Growing up I was listening to Puff and Biggie.

I started producing for Pump - I produced his first songs. 'Lil Pump,' 'Elementary,' 'Johnny Dang' - all that I produced.

No shade, and shout out to Lil Pump, but on a track like 'Gucci Gang,' he's not really saying much.

Anytime Pump and I make a track together, it's always crazy.

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

I think Mighty Moe really got me into a whole different style of MCing. There were a lot of people with simple lyrics and simple word play- he really pushed out the boat.

I put Compton on the map.

I need to do something with Cordae. His mannerism is so cool but his bars... he got them bars that puts him in an elite thing.

I've always wanted to work with Klashnekoff. He's been around for years! He's sorta my age but he is dope. The flow, the lyrics, it's just dope music.

I grew up in the area where we had Three 6 Mafia, and Playa Fly, and 8Ball & MJG. My parents and my family used to listen to it. I learned from them there, and got more into it - listening to the beat of songs, and just learning more about music.

For those from my era, my age, that 2Pac vs. Biggie war will go on forever about who is the greatest. But I was more of a Biggie dude.

Me and Kendrick Lamar have had conversations for years back and forth, so that's my dude.

I freestyle everything.

I'm definitely a writer. I don't even know how to freestyle.

I freestyle all my music.

I don't freestyle much.

I always wanted to be a Freshman because XXL is really important in the history of hip-hop. It embodies the culture.

I really didn't want to rap; I was just a regular kid. My friend - his name is William Aston - we went to the same high school together, and he was rapping. He put out a freestyle over Chris Brown's 'Look at Me Now,' and it was fire, and the whole school went crazy.

I was like, 'If I bang your thing, will you bang my thing? Will you sing on my album?' And he was like, 'Yeah, of course.' So I've got Robbie Williams on my album. Robbie Williams on grime.

I've always been into music. I used to DJ. I used to mix reggae and that. I used to be into reggae hard. Well first it was rap, then reggae, then rap again, then rap and reggae. But I was always DJing out my window for the whole estate. Everyone used to sit outside and all and listen. And I used to be running rhythms in that.

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we're trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.

I grew up on Geto Boys and of course UGK, who put my hometown of Port Arthur, Texas, on the map. I was about Goodie Mob and OutKast too.