In a new interview, Complex profiles Atlanta’s next star Trinidad Jame$. There were a lot of interesting pieces about his life growing up in the ATL and coming up in the music game. Excerpts are below, you can check out the whole thing here.

“There’s a lot I don’t remember about my childhood. I had a head injury when I was younger, I was walking on some stone steps in Trinidad and missed a step and when I fell I split open my head in the middle. So I don’t remember anything before like age seven.”

“That [major label stuff] don’t get to me. It let’s me know we doing something right, but I want to know what’s next? Can we do this with every song? I’m trying to figure out a way to turn all my music up, to get people on the project the way they on the single. It’s a harder process but it’s worth it, because you get more respect out of it.”

“You’re always going to have hate. Hate and love are two four-letter words. You got to get an equal balance of both in life, another four-letter word. So just in general, you pray to get more love than hate, and that’s how you win. You’re going to get hate, you can’t help it.”