I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music.

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.

Following your heart also means eliminating the things that no longer evolve you.

So the most natural thing to me is to stay as pure to or real to or close to who I am as possible.

I really can't say what inspires me the most, because I'm inspired by just about everything. My feelings and relationships, my family, Scooby-Doo. Opinion of my work. Everything. Not just one thing.

I was born to make mistakes, I ain't scared to take the weight.

People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.