How big can you be if just the underground niggas know you? You can't buy your mom a house when you just an underground celebrity.

Either you play the game or let the game play you and be that broke sucka talkin bout I stayed true

Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that.

You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.

I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me.

Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.