I've always felt that because I'm from Cleveland, which isn't recognised as a place for hip-hop, I needed to step it up if I wanted to make myself known.

So with the freestyles, I just do it for fun. If I hear something that I like, I'm rapping on it.

My whole thing is just to put out positive messages in the music, give people something that can change their lives.

Never regret something, because at one point everything you did was exactly what you wanted to do. And sometimes that's the hardest thing to realize.

For even in hell, I still have faith, To one day be free with my father at the gates, But make no mistakes, I'll show you what time takes, To be a success on earth, mixed with all the hate, I stand on my pivot, my life you could not live it For the things that I've seen have been too damn explicit.

Everything that shines ain't always gonna be gold

The people I met and the places I been Are all what make me the man I so proudly am.