I always wanted to do things right and represent myself as somebody that took the art serious and someone that took the business serious also, so I had time to weigh the options and figure it out and do my best to create the situation that was ideal.
My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.
I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.
I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.
Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it's happening.
Anybody that doesn't like Cardi B a hater!
When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.
It's important to love in hip hop.
If you're going to write about rap music and hip-hop, and you don't love it, then we don't need your opinion, and we revoke your opinion.
I think Ye is important to hip-hop.
I really love the culture of hip-hop.
Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.
I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.
I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.
One pillar to wealth is having residual income.
My music is influenced by L.A. culture.
If I inspire you, pay for it, period.
I built a label at the same time I built a career.
If you've got a plan, it's not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.
It was always a plan that we were going to have a retail side with what were doing musically, like an Apple store or Nike Town. I wanted something where you can come get everything - 'Marathon' or 'All Money' or 'Crenshaw' - and make it like an experience. Especially with what Crenshaw and Slauson meant to my story.
