““The damned don’t cry." That's my mantra. It’s the reason why I started my brand; it made me who I am today. My uncle would always reiterate that to me when I was growing up because I’d always be getting in trouble or I’d do something dumb, some crash out shit. And then I would suffer the consequences and be upset. But when I’d be upset, he’d remind me, "The damned don’t cry.” So at the end of the day, you know what you’re doing, or you know, you do something now; you can't get mad later. You can be mad at the consequences or the effects later. so I took that. And he played a very pivotal role in my life. I took that, and I ran with it. I was always thinking about the word damned because of him. So I overcame most of my adolescent problems, and I was thinking, How can I turn a negative into a positive? And how can I see it from both sides of the coin? And if you think about the saying “damned if you do damned if you don't," regardless, it's two sides to a tale. So I live by it, because at the end of the day I know what I'm doing with any risk I take any time I leave the house, anything. Even if it's when I'm helping somebody out at work. Regardless, I always know what I'm getting myself into. And what I'm signing myself up for so I can take on the chin whatever is to come with it. And that's to basically say I'm not scared of anything; I'm not afraid to do anything. I'm always willing to be head forward, steadfast, and full throttle with whatever I'm putting my time into.”

“This has been a big year for me. Im currently fighting a (federal) case right now. So it’s like taking that in... Actually, it's funny. I got arrested in one of my shirts, and on the back of it it said, “No opposition shall prosper." So I feel like the biggest lesson this year for me was finding myself again, rediscovering my love for myself and my love for my craft and passion. So I feel like if I didn’t go through that situation, I wouldn’t have the appreciation for life—for my brand, my creativity, my talents, the people in my life, and just for the breath that I take every day I wake up. That's major shit; another real big lesson I learned from that too was to just put yourself first and go hard. I had a different crazy situation I was dealing with this year; I won’t go too much into that, but it taught me a lot. It taught me to grow up, be more supportive of myself, and be more determined; it really taught me how to be a man. So I feel like this year is big on maturity for me, and it's also really opening my eyes. Because I knew these things were in front of me before, and I knew I had the power to do these things before, and I even had people telling me. I have a great support system, and they would consistently remind me of all these things. But I had to see it for myself. And it took a lot for me to do that. And I'm not gonna sit here and get mad or pass judgment on myself or point the finger, but I take accountability because, at the end of the day, I put myself in every situation. So if I didn’t put myself in that situation, I wouldn’t have learned; I wouldn’t have gained the consciousness I need to. So that's why I take everything on the chin. I really take into perspective how good freedom is and the possibility of having more and doing more in life.“

“It's funny to me. Ive had a brand since about 2015, when I started making shirts just off some fucking around shit. I wasn’t really taking it seriously. And throughout the years, I've always had people tell me, “I fuck with this design,” ‘I fuck with this,” “I fuck with that," and “we want more,” like the demand was crazy. So it really made me think, like okay this is cool. One thing that made me really appreciate that, growing up, I never really heard stuff like that, like I didn’t have that support. And when somebody actually tells me they like my ideas, it's almost weird because it's like, wow, you actually like this? Like, I wasn’t used to hearing that. But it's the biggest compliment to me because it's on my creativity. And it's the fact that now that I'm releasing my art to the masses and there’s a possibility that people could own something that I've made or done, it really adds to my self-value and self-worth and just how I view myself as a person. And it makes me feel so good because, like, that's me. Before, I’d get compliments about my style, and it's like, okay, yeah, I know my fit fly, but these aren’t mine designs. It's different when you can say, "Nigga, I made that shit,” having that sense of ownership, and it's almost like entitlement. Like, I'm entitled to feel good about that because I could make something that made somebody else feel good, and that's big for me because I like making people feel good in life. It warms my heart. It lets me know that with whatever I'm supposed to be doing in this world, I'm doing something properly.“