In the industry there's this whole mentality of working with someone who can open the door for you, but my whole thing is that I like my work to speak for itself. So I still do have that same mentality.

I don't know [whether] if I didn't get paid, or my career didn't keep going where it goes, if I would keep doing music.

I didn't choose to be a rapper; it's just my talent.

I think what's keeping me making music - the money is great, but I make music for the visibility.

I am a rapper. The reason why I was against the whole rapper title is because I know so many people who want to be rappers and they're not.

I've been working with Peaches for a while as far as doing shows, maybe for the past two years. Everyone else seems to think that this is a new relationship, but me and her have been touring off and on for a while now. I was doing my album and I needed that heavy-hitter.

For you to be able to rap fast and fit many words into a bar, that's what rap is about, the showmanship. That's the thing we're kind of losing now. I'm not saying that the music now is horrible. I mean, I don't listen to it. The showmanship and creativity in rap is what made it special and what made it different.