I used to throw mad parties because I had all this damn money! Some of them got out of hand. People wanted to fight, steal necklaces off of people's necks. A little weird. I had to have armed security at my house. I was young, 21, 22.

I look down and see little kids in the audience and I'm like, "Oh man, I hope I'm not poisoning these kids!"

You never want to look like an old fart doing young rap music.

I feel like if I'm not going to change the game or do something innovative, then I'm not motivated.

I'm 14 years in the game, ... There's some kids that weren't even born when my first album came out. I wanted to draw a timeline between my old stuff and my new stuff and bridge it to where there's a level of continuity.

I still want to be an architect and score films and do other things. I always said as long as I've still got teeth and hair and I look cool when I look in the mirror, then I'll do it.

I don't think you should ever give up on trying to push the bar a little bit higher.