A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living.

I've been pulled out of my nice new car and laid out in the street by the police, interrogated and then have them get in the car and roll off leaving me lying in the street without even saying 'Get up.' The humiliation that they can put on a black man because they determine that you ain't got the money.

Winners have to absorb losses.

Another thing about me dealing with the old school rappers, you see a lot of humility. When you're new, nothing is wrong. Everything is tight. Because you're trying to hype the world into believing in you.

I'm pretty open book, I'm also the kind of person that will say, 'That's none of your business,' too.

I have to take what I say and make it heavy, so every single bar means something. And there's no riddles in my rhymes. Every single word means something.

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.