Tyga Quotes

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.’

The frustrating part of being an artist is that I can do a whole interview, and all most people are going to see is the headlines. As artists, we should be able to write our own headlines.

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.

As long as you know yourself and you got good people around you and you passionate about what you do, that’s all that matters because at the end of the day, you go to sleep with the people you love, you wake up with the people you love, and you spend your time with the people you love.

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.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you’ll be successful.

I’m making music that I love and I want to hear. At the same time, things like making money, making crazy money – you gotta find ways to reach to everybody but uplift everybody.

I never grew up in the Valley. I lived in Compton/Gardena my whole life.

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.

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.

Alexander Wang, Saint Laurent, Balmain, and Goyard are my designers of choice.

I have a lot of tattoos. I probably have over 100 tattoos. I don’t know. It’s just a mural… a collage.

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?

I try to be cool with everybody, but sometimes, everybody just has different personalities, motives, and different characters.

I don’t really know how it feels to hate on somebody else or just worry about what somebody else is doing.

I’ve always treated my career like independent. Everything that I got is because of myself, my own endorsements, my own touring myself.

When I go home and get off tour, I’d like to have a peace of mind. I like to chill. I don’t like everything to be all chaotic like how it is when I step outside, you know?

I’ve always been a fan of Saint Laurent because I like how their jeans fit on me, but as far as high fashion, I don’t wear too much high fashion. I like more streetwear and baggier stuff.

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.

Girls grab me all the time. To me, that’s regular, so it’s not really crazy.

I would say I’m a fan of late ’90s to early 2000s rap. That’s where I get all my inspiration from.

I don’t like Drake as a person. He’s just fake to me.

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.

Music changes every three months. There’s always new artists coming out. There’s always new sounds. There is always a new hit coming out. You gotta stay relevant as much as you can and feed your fans as much as you can.

I think whenever you’re around Kanye, you gotta take notes. The advice is taking notes, because everything he does and everything he says is very detailed and very up front. He’s always one hundred what he says.

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.

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.

I think, whatever makes you happy in life, you gotta do it. You can’t plan in life too much.

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.

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.

I’m just not a messy person… I don’t look for pleasure in social media.

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.

I’m a creative person, and I’ve got a lot of ideas. People probably thought that my mentality was quick fame because I made ‘Rack City’ and it blew up fast, but I have over 1,000 songs recorded.