It's almost not safe to be an artist, the way everybody is randomly picking people to feud with.

I have a song called 'Decisions' that features Jamie Foxx, Mary J. Blige, John Legend and Common. It's about people who have made a decision to really stand by you as friends.

My craziest ideas come from cartoons. I approach music by taking that cartoon extreme and the real life extreme and finding somewhere in the middle. The animated element lures people in, but the real-life substance puts the nail in the coffin.

You need to sweat yourself. Don't sweat nobody else.

My making it is a combination of grinding, grinding, grinding and being lucky enough to finally get a shot.

Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.

Buy a nickel bag, smoke a little lye, get high tonight, get high tonight.