I always knew I could rap, and in a sense I always rapped. And I've always behaved like a rapper. But I started to take it seriously when I recorded with the people of Brick when I started to receive some money.

Young Thug

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A mixtape is for the street, it's something you without necessarily thinking about it, because you have to stay in the game. It's like writing an e-mail saying hello to your friends.

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[I like in Kanye West] confidence in him, but also his aggressiveness, ambition and charisma.

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I'm pretty sure JAY Z don't wanna rap right now.

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I am always with London On Da Track, Wheezy, 808 Mafia Mike Will Made It, Ricky Racks.

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I'm signed to Atlantic through 300 Entertainment [Lyor Cohen's label]. That is my only contractual relationship.

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An album is a project with which you have to hit hard.

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I do my stuff, my "mixtapes," as you say. We just need time to capture. After that, I do not know what he thinks, but for me, it is time to get things together.

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I know I have this image but in reality, if you take all my records, I had to use five or six [tracks].

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The same image that I have of all the countries where I am supposed to go: it's far, it's different, it will be necessarily complicated ... It's another part of the world for me coming [from] the United States.

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This is where the guys who copy me are planted: I do not use auto-tune, I sing. That's my advice!

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This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry.

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It was stressful [to live as a child in a Sylvian Hills]. It's always been complicated, honestly... I do not really want to tell you, actually. It bothers me that you want me to tell this.

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I repeat it until it works. It is important to record, otherwise you lose ideas. That's why I never stay away from the studio, I always [have] something to ask.

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I am not versed in production software. I have basic knowledge, but it ends there.

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Mixtapes, it's for everyone and you throw them in the trash quickly. While an album is an object that only your real fans take the trouble to buy and know you have prepared something special.

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It was [Kanye West] who spoke, and then we met and recorded some songs. After, you know what it is: we all bump like crazy.

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It's a pretty crazy thing in which I tried to make songs, real songs, not the quick stuff like on a tape. A dose of Kendrick Lamar, a dose of J. Cole... because it's got to be an album that goes [in the] club.

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When my song "Danny Glover" leaked, I was a little bummed, but it finally allowed Kanye West [to listen]. One of my biggest surprises was his reaction: he liked [it] and he said he wanted to make a record together.

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I feel close to [Kanye West]. We're friends, this is not just a working relationship.

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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.

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