In the dancehall world, we have crews and they battle. It's part of the entire culture surrounding dancehall.

When you're given a song, it's my job to record the lyrics, story and emotion, and make everyone who is listening to the song believe that it was my words and experience.

I'm a Canadian Jamaican. For me, I carry my Jamaican element into my music in my more recent releases.

I'm definitely trying to incorporate a Caribbean and reggae element.

Especially as an artist who has been signed to one of the majors throughout my last ten years, you don't always get to write your own music.

Every place has its own challenges. In Canada, we have blessings like grants, but we also have curses in the sense that when you start to do more urban classified music, we no longer have a single urban radio station left.

I love to surround myself with people who are the best at what they do. My idea is I want to be a sponge and absorb everything they to teach, experience their energy, view them in their element and have the opportunity to ask them questions.