Tecca: "And what’s even weirder, ’cause I would be in class talking my shit and there would be girls in the corner like, 'You gotta have a backup plan.' And I’m just like, 'Shut up!' Like, you don’t know me. Like, I’m serious about this. But that really happened, though."

Tecca: "I feel less pressure now. You get the most pressure when you do this for your first time ’cause everyone is looking at you like, 'Can he do it again?' But even before I had 'Ransom,' I already been dropped buzzing songs… And it’s two years later now, so how can I still feel pressure from two years ago, a year ago? I’m doing me. If I let anything give me pressure, I’m just letting a bunch of random people eat me up on some brainwashing sh*t. That’s dead."

Tecca: "I’m always working on myself, 24/7. So, I try to make sure anytime I can remember like, I’m always in the moment. ’Cause there’s so many times I find myself just simulating through the day. I’ll just think about it like, What did I just do 30 minutes ago? Where was I at? So, I just try to make sure I’m here."

Tecca: "I don’t know. I blew up like two years ago. Like, amongst the rappers that coming up now, I don’t know where I stand amongst them. I really don’t know. All of us are still not shit. We all got a long way to go. That’s where we all stand, honestly."

Tecca: "I worry about what’s real first. Before I step into the numbers and all of the opinions, I make sure what’s real. I got a clean room. My mom happy. My dad happy. I’m eating good food. The internet, it’s always gon’ be there. But here? This shit could go away in a day. So, I’m just worried about me."

Tecca: "At the end of the day, this is my career. This is my business. So, if your music is doing good, you’re doing something right. You feel me?"

Tecca: "I would say this is different from both of them. Not music-wise. I’m not making no crazy country music or something, but I would say the process was different. Just the energy was different. It feels really natural. It feels really concentrated and focused. It’s definitely a vision. We’re not just lost in the sauce. There’s a vision."

Tecca: "It’s just a sound. Like, when you hear of We Love You Tecca, it’s a sound. So, now that this is the second version, it’s time to make the V2 of that sound, not go back. ’Cause you always gotta go forward, but reintroduce, like make a nostalgic feeling. Recreate that whole vibe."

Tecca: "We playin’ up loops, starting the beat from scratch. It’s a different method, you know? ’Cause when you hear just beats back-to-back-to-back, you really have nothing to do with the beats. You have to wait ’til you find something that you like. But instead, when you loading something up, you can make something that you like."

Tecca: "Nah, even ’til this day, there’s no adjustment. I’m still that same dude. I done changed a lot. I done evolved a lot, but I’m still that same dude. And I just be thinking about it sometimes. And it’s like, it makes me go crazy in my head because I can think about so many times where I probably thought about quitting or I probably was like, Damn, they think I’m trash. Or some weird something."

Tecca: "Or like, people in school, they didn’t like me or something. And I just think about where I’m at now. It’s not an explainable feeling. If anyone tells you that the feeling is explainable, it don’t matter what rapper you ask, if they got a word to describe this, there’s something wrong."

Tecca: "Bruh, especially when I got the verse back? I’m like, Yeah, this n**** going crazy. It was lit. I ain’t even gon’ lie. It was lit ’cause that’s something. I definitely do like [his] music a lot. A lot, a lot. Bro, is too fire."

Tecca: "My parents is the best parents in the world. I can’t ever put them at No. 2 or nothing. They’re very impactful in this. It’s very important to have people that you love supporting you."

Tecca: "I wanted to be an NBA player, but I knew I wasn’t gonna go to the NBA. I knew since the seventh grade I wasn’t going to the NBA and I just dropped it all right there. One day, I was a basketball player and the next day, I wasn’t. Like, at all. I’m not playing ball at gym. I’m not wasting my time at all on it."

Tecca: "I was just me. Like, everyone knew me. Everyone didn’t really know nothin’ about me, but they knew me, though. And they knew if I came around then it was lit. Like, I wasn’t going to the dry parties, I wasn’t linking with no... If I’m there, it’s lit. Just know if I’m there, it’s worth something. No matter before I was rapping. Any of that. If I’m talking to a girl, she’s here. My guys, they them. You feel me? Like, it’s no half-ass nothing."