When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.

Pray the real live forever man. Pray the fakes get exposed.

I had someone tell me I fell off, ooh I needed that.

Good women are rare too, none of them have come close

When I was young I was working with a lot of people being out in the south. My uncle wrote for Al Green and I was around Al a lot.

They sayin I'm back, I agree with that.

Soap opera rappers, all these niggas sound like 'All My Children'.