Zitat des Tages von ASAP Ferg:
It's kind of hard for you to be doing huge things and still be knowing what's happening on the street level.
I thought I was half white or something because I only know white people as Ferguson as their last name.
At the end of the day, you can't take my love for my people away.
Racism been over. It's the old people that keep on holding on to it.
There's no racism with the Internet.
There's no borders or lines you can't cross anymore. Everything is getting blended with everything. That's the dope thing about music now. Some people don't like it, more of the older people. They want to, you know, go back to old-school New York hip-hop.
I'm relevant because I fill a void for people who aren't doing what they want to do in life.
Chris Brown owns 14 of my belts. Swizz Beatz owns a zillion of my belts. They were supporting me before I was even anybody.
'Trap Lord' is basically the writer of the hood. It's the kid that's from the hood, from the trap, who's going to preach to his friends and his homies. Because they're not going to sit in no church. So they listen to me instead of going to a church, because I understand them, and that's really what the 'Hood Pope' is.
DMX was just one of the figures that I thought no one could ever be better than. I used to look up to him so much. The bikes, the dogs, that's where I come from.
I'm not a manufactured artist. Nobody taught me how to be a proper artist.
I got a lot of fans who are not even into fashion. So they look at me and wear what I wear because it's cool or looks cool.
I'm really into simple things - things you could wear every day.
I'm sort of like Jean-Paul Goude, the graphic designer who used to style Grace Jones and shoot all her visuals, just meaning that I use all mediums in one - music, fashion, and art. I'm hitting it from all angles.
I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.
Rapping can be repetition sometimes. Sometimes you gotta highlight your words in a certain kind of way. So I always was a fan of sing-rapping. It was always funny to me a little bit, and I think that being funny and being able to laugh, even at yourself, is a form of flattery.
'Going Back to Cali' is one of my favorite songs because of all the East Coast - West Coast rivalry.
People who are scared don't live life.
A lot of rappers been putting out a lot of sub-par visuals. I feel like the visuals could be better.
I used to do design before I was actually rapping. I went to art and design high school.
With 'Dope Walk,' I wanted to bring back kids dancing and having fun again. That's how it used to be in Harlem. I remember everybody Harlem-shaking and 'Chicken Noodle Soup'-ing. Those were some of the most fun and memorable times in my life.
When I was growing up, I saw the Aaliyah shirts, the DMX shirts, or the collab shirts with DMX and Aaliyah when they had a single together. Those were the dope collage shirts with their faces all over it. They were doing cool things like that.
