I think the best artists find ways to reinvent themselves. They find new ways to tell their stories, or they find new stories to tell.

Jay IDK

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I do music that makes me happy by challenging myself to go the extra mile and not do what everyone else is doing.

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In 2010, I attended Prince George's Community College in hopes of transferring to The University of Maryland. My major was computer science, and the goal was to one day work as an I.T.

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The reason I can achieve so many different feelings is because the people I listen to have always been so diverse.

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A lot of rappers lie about who and what they are.

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If you asked me why I went to jail, the easiest explanation would be to say, 'Because I'm black.'

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I always went for the girls that liked the bad guys.

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'Robot Chicken' was one of my favorite shows.

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Everyone who watches Adult Swim knows there's a sound to it, a feeling that's nostalgic sometimes, but then it's also different and outside the box.

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I want people to understand balance. I might make a banger, and that's the way that I feel, and then I may want to make a song that's really deep.

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I'm from the DMV, which is D.C.-Maryland-Virginia - Prince George's County in Maryland, to be specific.

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I went to jail at 17. While I was there, I discovered that I could write. Once I started making some songs, other inmates wanted to know a little bit more about what I was doing, and they asked me to rap for them. They really liked it, and I made it a goal to come out and try to make something out of the music.

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I always like to vent and tell the truth in my music.

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Growing up, I wouldn't say I was poor. But my parents, although we lived in a nice, middle-class home, they had their struggles.

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Financially, people always assume you're good when you're a rapper.

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I'm definitely trying to be Number One.

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'The Empty Bank' talks about really specific instances where I kind of make the wrong moves based off of money, and it also details instances where I was acting like I had money when I really didn't have that much money.

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There's peer pressure of not being respected of having a certain amount of money, but if you know who you are, then you see that and look past it.

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At times, I can be a slave to money.

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There are a lot of things that money can't buy, and once you realize that is how you break free.

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At first, I thought I could go to school and do music on the side and be successful, but the more I began to understand the industry, the more I fell in love with it.

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