When you live in the projects, everything you need is in a mile radius: a basketball court, an indoor gym, a school, a grocery store, a shopping center.

Sheck Wes

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To me, no matter where I perform, it's going to be lit.

going me lit matter

No shade, and shout out to Lil Pump, but on a track like 'Gucci Gang,' he's not really saying much.

saying like gang shade

It's all about always putting in that time and that work and also, separating yourself for the better. Put yourself around good things, better people, and things like that.

yourself good work time

I inspire people in my hood to step outside the box, as you don't always gotta be super tough!

step you tough people

I'm a mudboy. I came from the mud, oozed out the concrete. I'm not a rose. I'm a mudboy: I came from nothing.

out nothing mud rose

I was super cool in school.

super cool school

My whole life, I've always tried to be a star.

tried star always life

A Mudboy is just somebody who came from nothing: you know, who turned nothing into something. You know, when I was in Africa, in the rain, I walk around in, like, mud, you know, the sand would turn to mud, and you are not getting out of that.

walk nothing you rain

Everything you do gotta come from your heart.

your everything you heart

I will always make my own path.

own will my-own path

When I'm away from New York, the thing I miss the most is the food. I miss going to my deli to get a pomegranate-flavored aloe water and a chop cheese. That's my favorite sandwich.

new new-york food water

In Harlem, Facebook was big. Kids would make Facebook 'families,' where they would change their last name on Facebook and have the same last name as their friends. I had this girl I was talking to, and she changed her last name to West, so I changed mine to West, too. It wasn't until later that I took the 't' off.

name friends girl change

I want to win Nobel Peace Prizes, as many Grammys as I can, Emmys, Golden Globes, VMAs, everything.

win i-can want peace

I want to play in the NBA. I'm dead serious.

dead serious want play

I pick simple beats because I need space for me to work.

me space simple work

I go overseas, and all the soccer players come to me, like, 'Yeah bro, we always play 'Mo Bamba.'' It's crazy.

go me crazy play

I was always freestyling in the projects.

always projects

I kind of want 'Mudboy' to just be only Sheck Wes, and 'Mudboy' is going to talk about how I became a Mudboy.

talk how just want

I remember when I did 'Live SheckWes, Die SheckWes,' and when I did 'Mo Bamba,' I one-taked those because it came from my heart.

live die heart remember

I got a whole different mindset from living in Senegal and being there. I learned a lot of things, met a lot of people, and got to really find out what I wanted to work for and who I want to be and who I want to help and who I'm doing it for.

doing want work people