I don't want to be in the spotlight so bad that I'm going to sell my soul, or sell my creativity short.

I hate when any rapper would just use "Rapper X" because "Rapper X" is hot at the time and put them on the record. That's not how I do my thing. I work with my friends and people I consider fam.

I try to only work with people whose craft I believe in.

I was a Air Force kid. I got out of high school and I decided to join the military. I traveled and I was international before I got home. I did my thing in Japan, and I did it on big stages.

I've got my girl records that are real feel-good and could be a radio crossover. But it's not me going in that direction, and being like, "We need this huge pop crossover record where we need this girl on the hook."

I'm not going to go in and get some hooks from some niggas who don't know me, or know what I'm about.

Artwork is super-important, that's why my videos are the way they are.