Lil B

Men lie, women lie, numbers don't.

I want people to smile when they hear my name.

Based means being yourself. Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do. Being positive.

I listen to music all the time. I need music and I love music and I appreciate it. It inspires me.

I don't have any contracts, so I don't have to split any money up. That was my main thing - just making sure I'm taking care of myself and taking care of Lil B. Just learning to survive, for myself and as a human in America.

Before Lil B, hip-hop and music in general was in a different space. Lil B really just pushed this independence.

I can't make Based God music all the time. The Based God is something that is better than Lil B and better than Brandon McCartney; he's something that I aspire to be.

I give it all to Based God, I'm just putting stuff together that the Based God gives me.

I'm a funny guy. I want people to laugh. I laugh at myself, I make fun of myself. But at the end of the day everything that I say has a message in it.

It doesn't matter where you're from. You can be from the hood or the suburbs. You can be poor with no education or a college graduate. No matter your background, you can win.

If the white folks feel America is great for everybody, I don't want to change what they love. All I want is to bring my love and respect in the areas of law, policy, business, and banking. That's what I do when I do my extremely rare lectures at universities.

I mean, everything that is upon this earth, even from a worm or a caterpillar that blossoms into a butterfly, you know, these things are just amazing.