I hear it all the time in the street: 'It's the crisp bloke.'
The name Hot Boys was based on a time in New Orleans where if you were really doing something or if the police were looking for you, people would be like, 'He hot. That boy hot.'
Everybody knows with rap artists, if you can't go to the hood, it's almost like you're not authentic, even if you're a dope artist that's respected.
In Brooklyn, all the kids call me the 'Willy Wonka of the Hood.'
I see myself as the godfather of the streets.
Everybody from our block got PnB in front of their name.
I go by 'Papi' on the streets.
Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?
My dad was well known on the streets, shall we say, and he had a different lifestyle, which could spill into the home setting. Being exposed to that at a young age was difficult.
The streets and the industry are two different things. You could be one super-hot artist in the streets, and you could walk into a corporate building, and people would be like, "Who are you?"
I loved the fact that I was suddenly no longer dependent on whether a store took out an ad in the right place, or on the word on the street.
The rap on me on the street is the opposite - I'm impractical, I'm more expensive, it's too complicated and I run over budgets, which isn't true. None of that's true and there's plenty of documentation if anybody needs it.
