Mixtapes are extremely important, especially for New York or North East artists. They allow you to be creative, to get feedback and criticism, but most of all, it gets your name out there. I would say about 90-100% of my success was down to the mixtapes.

I read every fan forum and every blog, and every message board, and every chat room. I read it all. There's nothing online that I'm not aware of.

I remember a day and time when the streets indicated what was hot online, and now I think it's starting to reverse a little bit.

They say I'm difficult, so to put it simply....tell the world I never cared it was against me

I came up in battling and just wanting to compete. Even if you had no real problem with someone, you just wanted to compete.

I know that I'm kind of a big deal online, but I think that some of that is starting to seep into the streets, and you want to kind of continue to make sure it does that.

Where I'm at physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually usually dictates where my music goes.