DaBaby

He's from Fayetteville. I'm from Charlotte. We got two different upbringings. All in all though, I love J. Cole's perspective and I love his music. I love his approach. It's just two different things. ”

I love it when you have to perform at a certain level or else. That's when I'm at my best. ”

Early on in my life, I got two older brothers; we used to listen to Eminem, 50 Cent, Lil Wayne. ”

I've been broke my whole life, you get what I'm saying? I'm scared of the bank. ”

Anybody that is trying to go into business with me, of course, I'm gon' do my research on them. ”

When you got a sound that don't sound like nobody else and it's brand new, you've got to feed it to ‘em. You've got to force it on ‘em." ”

I made that a point when I was creating my sound from the beginning, I didn't want to sound like anybody. Once I kind of found my own sound, I mastered it. ”

I didn't know of any rappers in Charlotte. Not to sound like I'm bragging, but I brought the music scene alive and shed the proper light on it. I took it to a whole other level when I started rapping. ”

I'm an early 1990's baby, so I had the pleasure of going through a lot of eras in music. ”

It's just the risk that I take and the sacrifice that I make: Putting myself, my career, my family's peace of mind on the line just to do right by my fans. It ain't no gray area: You're either with that and willing to go out of your way to make people who contribute to your dreams coming true happy or you aren't. ”