I don't wanna be bare minimum. I wanna be successful.

You gotta be very positive. It helps. It really does.

Once I found art, it was a wrap.

I don't want to be that stereotypical black girl that's mad all the time.

It's hard to be dainty and la la la when you're also supposed to be strong.

I feel like I'm really loud and brash.

Everything's a battle.

I think my sound is very loud. I want other people to describe it as a form of therapy - therapeutic music, a form of release to them.

At the end of the day, you have a side of the story that needs to be heard, too.

I've been imagining spikes in my head since I was 13 years old.

I describe my sound as sugar trap, that's not really a description that's really who I am, that's my swag, that's how I talk and walk.

A lot of times I play my music at shows based on the views and the streams.

I used to play Joan Jett all the time. Then, the movie 'The Runaways' came out. It was a wrap from there.

I love when people are just naturally happy people.

Shoutouts to Cardi B. She's going to be a great mom.

A lot of people tend to get intimidated by looking at a place where they're from as empty. I look at it like a clean slate.

Try performing with your period. Like really, and then call me back. I know Beyonce has. I know Nicki has. I know all of the legendary women have had to do that. A man can't do that.

I thought I'd be famous for being cute.

I don't want to say I'm that famous, but when you see me, you see me.

Tales of Tacobella' showed that I can rap.

I love Beyonce. I feel like Beyonce is the final form of a person. Like, you gotta get to your Beyonce stage in life. That's your final form as a human.

I grew up listening to Bob Marley, Jill Scott, Floetry, Nas, Jay-Z, Beyonce.

Yachty is very wise.

I was like, weird on purpose. I wanted to be an outcast.

When I wanted to become an artist I wanted to be versatile but at the same time, fans never know what to expect.

I don't look at anything for who I should be.

I went with Atlantic because I got a lawyer to look at my contract and my contract was fire.

When I first knew that I wanted to rap I was seven years old and I lost the talent show. It was like spoken word or something. My mom made me do it. It was a Langston Hughes poem. The girl that came on after me, she wound up winning. She was a singer.

When I was in high school, I was like the only girl making music.

I never wanted to stop making music.

I feel like what motivates me is what would motivate the regular average person.

I'm actually a true lyricist.

I feel very open to trying new things.

They're never gonna not put you in a box. It's something that they have to do, because nine times out of 10 people don't understand creativity.

The first time my dad ever heard my mixtape it was 'Summer's Eve,' and he was fresh out of jail. And he'd be in jail for like damn near two years.

I didn't want to do music. I was very doubtful. I was like, 'Oh my God. No one wants to hear a teen mom rapper.'

Whenever comparisons get too crazy I just think about my goals, and what I want from myself. I don't look at any references.

When I started rapping, I was like, I'ma change my name before I become famous. And that didn't happen. I didn't have time.

I've been Rico since 10th grade.

It's just amazing being a parent, being a little nervous at first, but then everything falls into place naturally.

Lil Yachty is opening up that lane of being a black weirdo.

I met Yachty through Twitter early 2015.

I feel like what I'm bringing to the table that's different is like not just consistency in the music but consistency in the creativity, consistency in the visuals, in the fashion, participation with the fans and things that I give them and merch and stuff like that. And I'm very active with them.

That aggression came over time from dealing with stuff - 'Anger Management' really is what it's called. That project came out and I felt a weight lifted off my chest. I learned something about myself.

I don't know, whenever someone was like, 'Yeah, I'm going to the studio,' I just went with them. And I started recording.

Earl Sweatshirt is very wise.

I feel like I have a lot of rhythm because I'm from the DMV. Because you got so many different types of music: Baltimore Club music, Go-Go, then you got the DMV rap music scene, then you got the DMV R&B music scene. It's a lot of music and it's a lot of taste that caters to most.

When I made 'Tales of Tacobella,' and I made 'Sugar Trap,' it was like people literally trying to say that like, either that they made it, or that they helped make it, and then they continued to try to steal the flow, try to steal the aesthetic of everything I tried to build.

Why still be pretty and all that when there's so many girly female rappers already? You can be a rock star instead.

I plan to break the barriers that people try to trap female rappers in. This isn't about 'Oh she sounds good for a female rapper,' it's about 'Yo, she sounds really good on this and can really rap!'