The rap game has to save itself. Everybody's saving it. People like Lil Wayne is saving it. He's bringing energy to it.

I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you.

I rarely drink, I don't smoke, so my vice is probably creating. I'm addicted to creating. And women.

As a rapper, I don't freestyle. I used to freestyle when I used to get drunk, and it didn't matter.

The rap game has to save itself. Everybody's saving it. People like Lil Wayne is saving it. He's bringing energy to it.

I'm a fan of making things that I've seen but couldn't purchase, or things I bought that didn't fit the way I like.

Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.