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. – Tyga
I’ve always treated my career like independent. Everything that I got is because of myself, my own endorsements, my own touring myself. – Tyga
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. – Tyga
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you’ll be successful. – Tyga
Sour Patch, Swedish Fish. I love candy, man. I can’t go without candy. And when I’m recording, I always have a TV on with cartoons – on mute, though. When I’m recording, I like to look at the TV now and then and see some crazy, wacky stuff. When you’re thinking creative, it just keeps you creative. Everybody got their way of making music. – Tyga
I have a lot of tattoos. I probably have over 100 tattoos. I don’t know. It’s just a mural… a collage. – Tyga
I can make any type of music, so I wouldn’t want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think music is about keeping it diverse. – Tyga
I dropped out of high school when I was, like, 15, so I just focused on doing music. It’s all I wanted to do; I didn’t want to work or anything else. I took all the negativity and obstacles that came with life, and I just put it in the music. – Tyga
I feel like too many people on the West Coast, they’re too needy. They feel they need Snoop or Game. I never did any tracks with any West Coast artists. Not because I didn’t want to, but because I didn’t feel like that’s what I had to do in order to get on. I just did music. – Tyga
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? – Tyga
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. – Tyga
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. – Tyga
I make negative music, but I also make positive music because that’s what thrown at me with life. – Tyga
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. – Tyga
I don’t follow trends. I’m a trendsetter. I represent all the younger generations; fly kids, creative kids – they look up to me. I got a program that’s called ROAR. I go to all high schools everywhere we go, and I talk to all the kids, and I give away 30-35 tickets and passes to the kids doing good in school. Stuff like that means a lot to me. – Tyga
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. – Tyga
There’s not a lot of pretty, young female artists that’s out. It’s a lot of talent out there, but they don’t know how to go about it. I feel like there should be way more sexier women in hip-hop and R&B then it is – more originality. – Tyga
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. – Tyga
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. – Tyga
I never wanted to be that fad type of artist. When I looked up to artists, watching TV, I wanted to see somebody. I wanted to touch that person. I wanted to sound like them. I wanted to move like them. That’ s what I want my fans to do. So that’s why, everything that I do, the music I make, how I dress, it’s all based off my lifestyle. – Tyga
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. – Tyga
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? – Tyga
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. – Tyga
