Honestly, when I do a lot of records where it's super lyrical, all that it is to prove and to show people, like, I can really rap. I can switch flows - I can go with the best of them - so first of all, I want you to respect me as a rapper.

Joyner Lucas

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I'm not trying to make everything this fantasy world about how I'm living this lavish life that I'm not really living.

fantasy trying life world

I can't make everybody happy.

make everybody happy

As we grow, we learn to handle situations differently than we normally would.

learn than grow handle

I always struggled with the idea of forgiving my enemies.

enemies idea always forgiving

I've always felt misunderstood. Growing up, it's been my word against the teachers' or my parents' word, and nobody would ever listen to me.

teachers nobody parents me

A lot of artists are afraid to be themselves and afraid to tell people what it really is.

really afraid tell people

When I was a kid, I was just rapping about school and stuff like that.

just kid like school

I began seeing certain things happen in my life and other people's lives and getting inspired by it and writing about it. And that's where you get 'Happy Birthday' from and 'Ross Capicchioni' from or you even get 'I'm Sorry' from.

my-life you birthday life

I stopped watching sports because I didn't want to watch someone running up and down the field making millions and I'm not doing anything about it. That methodology made me go harder and take control of my career.

control down me sports

I'm not a mumble rapper.

mumble rapper

Eminem has been someone that I've always considered the greatest ever, to ever do it. You know what I mean? In every aspect, the storytelling abilities, lyrical ability, honesty. You can hear it in my music that I'm heavily influenced by that.

someone you honesty music

I just love music, in general. I love art.

just music love art

My videos are meant to make people look at themselves at the end of the day. They all have a message.

end-of-the-day day look people

I personally think J-Cole is a better rapper than me; that's how I feel.

feel better think me

I've never been into artists promoting drugs.

artists been never promoting

Nobody is really going to bring my vision to life like the way that I am. Before I was doing my own music videos, it was not really my vision.

i-am vision music life

I've always tried to stay away from doing remixes to songs that were popular, because too many people do that. But that's something the fans want to hear, me over those type of beats. So I do it for them.

doing me want people

I have been making music since I was a kid. I have written music since I was, like, seven or eight. I was in the studio at 9, 10. So I've had a lot of practice over a lot of years.

kid like music practice

I think Lil Uzi is dope. Future is dope. I love Young Thug. I'm a huge Young Thug fan.

think future dope love

I think everybody's gone through some racist moment in their life.

some think moment life