Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.

Of all the albums I've made, I still don't feel like I've made the perfect album. I've had ones that touch on this, and others that touch on that, but never one that's just perfect and fully relevant. I don't know if I'll ever make it, but I'm certainly trying every day.

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.