I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal.

I didnt grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, Ive never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.

I think when people get comfortable is when they fall off.

Nothing tops making a living off your passion.

When you're choosing the track list and the sequencing, it's important to make sure that there's some strong concepts on there and that it matters and it says something... that it sticks with people.

Anybody can have a great album in themselves but it's not until you bring it out and put it into tangible form and creating it and working on it in the studio that all of that comes to life you know what I mean?

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around.