Quotes

Every time I step on stage an' see all of the lights or hear fans singing the words to my songs ,it's a surreal moment for me.

I can't even lie: Sometimes, I be antisocial.

Perfecting your craft is one of the main keys in being successful.

Being self-made means putting yourself in position to help others put themselves in position to be successful.

I just wanna be relevant.

Why do you think my name is Artist? I'm an artist.

I look at goals, like, what do I want to do and where do I want to see myself. What position to I want to be in going forward.

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.

My mom is proud of me. My pops proud of me. Everybody keeps motivating me.

Everybody should start listening to love songs.

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

I was raised hearing music everywhere I went.

I overloaded myself with work. I give myself work to do so I don't give myself time to chill and have free time to chill with the family as much.

If you listen to me, it's real stories. It's catchy and something you can relate to.

My first mixtape especially - that came from a heartbreak.

I want to be the next legend.

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.

Getting people to like my music was challenging at first. It's hard to get people to like your music. There isn't a simple formula that automatically makes people like you.

I want people to really recognize that this is what I am naturally good at: I'm really good at making music and describing your feelings vicariously through my experiences, through my past and my future. I want people to relate to me in multiple ways and be versatile in my music.

Most of the time, I'm making music. There'll be moments of my life where I feel like I gotta to take a break and come back to the music. It's hard to explain, but you need to get a break from it and then come back to it. It's like you gotta lose something to appreciate it.

If it wasn't for the Internet, I don't know where I'd be.

Even though I can't dance, that's, like, the one thing I wished I could do growing up. I used act like I was MJ, doing the moonwalk, tip toes, leg kick, all that.

I got so many people that have my number. It's crazy. I just don't feel like texting anybody back after I get, like, 30 text messages in three hours. I just be chilling.

'A' comes from Artist. And 'Boogie' from the Bronx. 'The Hoodie' part came from just having a hoodie on a lot.

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.