It's always been most important for me to figure out "my space" rather than trying to check out what everyone else is up to, minute by minute. Technology is making it easier to connect to other people, but maybe harder to keep connected to yourself-- and that's essential for any artist, I think.

My brands are an extension of me. They're close to me. It's not like running GM, where there's no emotional attachment.

You can pay for school, but you can't buy class

There's the gift, there's the spirit, and there's the work-all three have to come together. If one of those things is off, it can stop you from becoming who you were meant to be.

Can I hit it in the morning with out giving you have of my dough?

No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here

Their gunnin' for me, want to see me fall, you know my story, been through it all, times I felt like dyin', but I ain't cryin', what didn't kill me, makes me strong as iron.