I ain't follow nobody path; I did it my own way. It's just grindin', ya feel me? You just gotta grind.
Roddy Ricch
Never be ashamed of who you are, your story, or how you react to situations. Don't ever be ashamed of how you communicate with people. Don't ever be ashamed of the person you are. Be you.
I just stay in my own lane and not worry about what anyone else is doing and settling my own pace.
I think I'ma make every hood proud. Everybody that ever seen me come up, know what I came from, know how I came up, know where I started. I feel like I'ma just make everybody proud.
It's never guaranteed for somebody to be successful. It just really be God.
My best friend died in a high-speed chase.
Usually, the loudest in the room is the weakes. The quietest man in the room, who is being very observant, is the smartest and the strongest.
I've always known that I have a different mentality. I can move in different ways and that's for people to realize.
I don't play no one else's game and I don't run no one else's race because if I did that, I wouldn't be who I am.
I don't really be putting no limitations or projections on myself. I just go do it.
I was anti social, but at the same time, people gravitated to that because they wanted to figure out who I was and why I was how I was.
I just feel like it's a blessing to be able to represent Compton.
I don't believe in things that I can't see.
I always have positive intentions.
Gotta always drink your water.
Jewelry isn't a necessity, but sometimes it can bring out my fashion. Sometimes if I'm wearing very dark clothes, like darker colored, black, anything like that, and I put white jewelry on top, it look crazy because it's like, the contrast of the diamonds and the dark clothes.
I just be wanting my fans to like, feel like I'm bringing them something nobody bringing them.
I've never been the type to be on social media all the time.
I can't just close myself off to the world, because then I won't be inspired anymore. I won't be able to talk about nothing.
I'm still very involved in my community. I give back and I'm always there for the homies. That's one of the biggest parts of what I do.
It takes a lot for me to be excited.
You never wanna rise to the top too fast in anything.
When a person go to jail, what people don't realize is you're alive, but you're dead to the world. People forget about you. When you go to jail, you're a story.
I don't really celebrate victories. Kobe Bryant just kept playing. Michael Jordan just kept playing.
Kendrick Lamar taught me that life experience is an important part of being a good illustrator. When you're illustrating a story, you have to go based off of your personal experiences.
My music is really my therapy. I really lay all my feelings into the songs, and really just leave 'em there. I don't carry that weight when I'm going throughout life. I'm not sad all the time.
I like to talk about different subjects because then you give the people a chance to really digest something, and then take whatever they associate themselves with at the time.
I be on some, perfecting my craft, just making sure the music is all the way there.
As I experience life, my music is gonna evolve. At the same time, I still do tell the stories from my world because there are unlimited stories and unlimited people from that place. I'll always represent them. As my life begins to change and I do different things, I still want to be able to tap in and relate to them.
I got a portrait of Nipsey at my house, bro. I got to put a platinum plaque by that, and my brother is not here to share that with me. That's his first platinum single. We did that together.
I believe in full albums, and whatever comes out of those full albums will come.
I don't really sing... I just hear notes so I know what it's supposed to sound like, if that makes sense. You ever hear someone try to teach a choir how to sing, but they can't sing? That's me.
A lot of people say I got my own sound. I ain't never really got no comparisons. When people hear my music, they be like, 'He got his own lil sound.'
Pineapple definitely one of my essential fruits, everyday.
Nipsey could respect the fact that I was who I was - I was never trying to be anything that I wasn't.
With 'Start With Me,' I sent it to Gunna and he sent it right back. I didn't have to ask him. If I send you a song, you gonna vibe to it and if you don't, it's cool.
My pops put me on to Jay-Z and Kanye, and my discoveries would be like Future and Kendrick Lamar. I turned my pops on to Kendrick, Young Thug. I feel my mom made me play the Isley Brothers and real, real old music.
I like Atlanta a lot but no place beats my house. I just like the Black success in Atlanta. I loved being surrounded by that.
I used to tell people I slept on the floor, in my songs.
I just wanted to do something positive. I feel like music was the talent that I had, I just had to tap into it.
It's one of the essentials just to have a lighter on me, you never know what you might have to use. I like my lighters to be blue and small, they can fit in a pocket.
Oh yeah, I've got a good relationship with Marshmello.
People misinterpret my lyrics sometimes too, but I mean, it is what it is.
I want to make people think about certain things or have them ask the question of 'why.' I just want to always keep the people wondering.
I listened to Lil Wayne a lot when I was kid.
I don't want people to think like Roddy is John Legend now. I just felt like once I got to a certain point, that I wanted to expand musically.
I bought some equipment and then I started recording real heavy, in my room, when I was like 16.
I really just wanted to put out songs with people that I was rocking with.
Usually when my music drops, I can go to my hood, I can hear people playing it. Now it comes from performing it, people knowing it and stuff. It's crazy!
Kendrick was a real big inspiration for me. I seen him when I was younger... 'Rigamortis' was out... maybe I was 14... I rapped for him.
