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

The more I started going through my own things in life, my faith got put to the test, and I had to believe that God is real in my heart, my lord and savior Jesus Christ, and I can't run from that. I'll always put that in my music or it just wouldn't be right. People can take it or leave it, I really don't care, because it's for me to put it on records. And I will continue to put more of a spiritual nature in my music.

How am I influencing so many people on this stage rather than influencing the ones that I have back home?

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.

Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem.

There are so many people pulling at me at one time - some want the business, some want my love, some just want my support, just to be there or to acknowledge them the same way I used to. To be able to figure that out is an ongoing process, because there's always another show, another album, another moment that I don't want to miss. But I'm pacing myself. I hope the powers that be keep me on a straight course.

I was raised inside the gang culture.