American - Musician | June 14, 1982 -
This is the land of getting over. The land of second or even third chances; the land of doing whatever you have to do by any means necessary in order to fulfill the American Dream.
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It's in the American spirit to take advantage of an opportunity.
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I'm trying to bring gangster rap back to the forefront, like in the early '90s.
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I'm not trying to obey the rules of radio.
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My core thing is gangster rap, but a lot of my music is melodic and carries a message of survival.
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Just give me a mic, and I'll rock it.
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Jeezy just recognized my grind, and I jumped on board with him to enhance it. Artistically, we're in the same mind frame. We come from very similar backgrounds - poverty. That's something that we can both relate to, something that we can convey in our music.
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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.
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Sports is one of the keys to my life. It definitely kept me out of a lot of trouble and gave me a lot of discipline.
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I've been engulfed in sports since I was a 2-year-old; I picked up any kind of ball - a basketball, baseball, football - I just loved to play something. I loved the energy of being in arenas and watching the game on TV.
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My father took me to a lot of sports events as a child, and our TV stayed on ESPN.
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Stuart Scott was a hero.
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