I strive for perfection, but Im not perfect. But what I can say is my morals are totally different than any other 24-year-old rapper my age now. I look at life totally different. A whole other aspect. I have different views and morals on life in general. And opinions.

My real name's Rakim - my parents named me after the god MC himself.

Probably, violent things I've done when I was younger, was probably the most despicable thing that I've ever done.

New York gave me hell for that 'Purple Swag,' man. They didn't respect me until 'Peso.'

I would not consider myself to be a quote unquote real New York rapper. I don't even like New York rappers.

But for real, for me, I feel like with the red lipstick thing it all depends on the pair of complexion. I'm just being for real. You have to be fair skinned to get away with that.

Sometimes I feel like what's hard for fashion designers to do is take looks from off the runway and actually put it into existence, into reality. That's really the hard part.