Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It's really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

You can have the platinum album, but when you still feel like you haven't quite found your place in the world - it kind of gives a crazy offset.

You can't have people listen to you unless you come to their world and then bring them to yours.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.

I don't talk about these things if I haven't lived them, and I've hurt people in my life. It's something I still have to think about when I sleep at night.

We all get distracted, the question is, would you bounce back or bounce backwards?