It's hard - it's difficult to tell when your buzz is at its peak.

Why try to fit in when you a stand out?

Technology being the way it is, and record sales being the way it is, there are not too many things that you need to depend on a label for that you can't go out and do yourself.

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

It's hard - it's difficult to tell when your buzz is at its peak.

I think the time in between albums, as much as it was not anticipated, it was much-needed, and very helpful, very useful. I've done nothing but hone my craft, and get better, and learn, and gather information in the process. So I'm grateful for it in retrospect.

Like I said, as long as I'm consistent and I try to put my best foot forward, and work as hard as I possibly can, everything else will fall into place - God'll take care of everything.