A Boogie wit da Hoodie

Not everyone's really got the heart to talk about what's going on with their love in their music. ”

New York sounds like something that I could really listen to. It's like a vibe; it's a hit song. It's a song that you could listen to in five years and still like. ”

No matter where I'm at in life, whether I'm in the music industry, rich, poor, everybody need love in their life. Gangsta or not, everybody need love in their life. You can't act too hard about that. ”

Having a daughter made my music, I guess, more meaningful. It made me see more of life when I had my daughter. ”

I was inspired to shoot 'Look Back at It' in a high school because I'm like a voice of the youth. When the youth sees me in a classroom, I want them to be inspired to accomplish their dreams. I was just like them in a classroom at one point. It all starts in a classroom. ”

One day, walking through the Bronx streets, I just realized that people were stopping me, taking pictures, and noticing me from across the street. I can't even use public transportation anymore, so I kind of stopped going places and started going straight to the studio, going home, and telling people I can't go anywhere anymore. ”

Everything I do is me. I don't like taking ideas from people unless they're the G.O.A.T. ”

You can't say I don't sound like a N.Y. rapper - it's because I don't wanna sound like nobody else. ”

I found my sound through exploring. I was in the studio yelling, going low, trying things, and that's how I found that I have a lot of sounds. ”

I used to record songs, like, play the beat from one phone and have another phone recording me and just rap. Moving from that to a studio was like, 'Damn, I never knew I could sound like this.' It was just magic. ”