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

I aint a drinker Im a thinker, call it what you want

[Drizzy] reached out to me through Chase N Cashe, they're brothers, they're one. Chase N Cashe made the connection, played some of my music and he [Drake] got up on it, got interested in the music and just reached out and said "You know what, let's work."

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.

Consequences from evil will make your past haunt you

I don't even have kids. But at heart, I'm a kid myself.

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.