Micheal Ray Stevenson Quotes
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You go to Miami, and you might only hear one Tyga song on the radio. You go to L.A., and you might hear six or seven on the radio. There's certain things you do for your city.
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Making music is like being the president: You can't tell people you're going to make health care free to get them behind you, but when you get that role, you don't do it.
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you'll be successful.
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I can make any type of music, so I wouldn't want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think music is about keeping it diverse.
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I'm definitely inspired by Michael Jackson. I watch all his videos all the time. And Busta Rhymes, early Busta Rhymes - I really was inspired by him. He's really the reason why I started rapping. Because all his visuals. I loved his videos when I was younger.
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Girls always want a reason to get crazy. I get the feeling that girls are crazy anyway, so they just want a reason to really get wild. Why not let it be to a Tyga song?
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I never grew up in the Valley. I lived in Compton/Gardena my whole life.
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I only like people to know what I want them to know. People didn't know what Tupac was doing. That's why he was so iconic.
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You can't live for other people, you know? You gotta live for yourself and better the people around you and make an impact.
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Fame is a thing that happens when you do something you love - nobody wants to be famous for the wrong reasons. It's not my goal, but if being more famous means I can get more music out, that's cool.
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I want to make people feel certain ways when they listen to my music. Whether it's partying or going through relationship problems or grinding or getting dressed and feeling fly. I want to be who I am and have emotion in my music that affects people.
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Tattoos, for me, are like a timeline of my life. I could look at a certain tattoo, and it reminds of me of a certain time in my life and why I got that tattoo.
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At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. And I have the right to say what I want on my music 'cause it's my music. If you don't like it, don't click on it, don't download it.
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I think, whatever makes you happy in life, you gotta do it. You can't plan in life too much.
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A lot of people don't know I'm from the West Coast. My swag is different. Me being from Young Money, affiliated with them, some people think I'm from down South. They think maybe I'm from New Orleans like them. It's just good to show people and build outside of Young Money, build my brand outside of that.
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You can't base your life off waking up every morning, like, 'What are people saying about me now?' Then I'd never stay in my creative headspace.
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I would say I'm a fan of late '90s to early 2000s rap. That's where I get all my inspiration from.
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There are so many artists that inspire me, it's honestly too many names to go through. I look up to people who've been in the game for years.
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I don't like Drake as a person. He's just fake to me.
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I had faith that music would be able to take me somewhere. I didn't know where. I just was like, 'Keep having faith, and any doors that open, I'll walk through them and see what happens from there.'
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I have a lot of tattoos. I probably have over 100 tattoos. I don't know. It's just a mural... a collage.
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A lot of my fans know that I love candy. I eat candy all day.
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I don't follow trends. I'm a trendsetter. I represent all the younger generations; fly kids, creative kids - they look up to me. I got a program that's called ROAR. I go to all high schools everywhere we go, and I talk to all the kids, and I give away 30-35 tickets and passes to the kids doing good in school. Stuff like that means a lot to me.
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I don't really know how it feels to hate on somebody else or just worry about what somebody else is doing.