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.

I'm inspired by everything that I encounter, from the environment to people to other songs, movies and artists.

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

No matter what class you're from - uptown or downtown - when you're in the dancehall everyone's equal, and it's how you choose to express yourself that makes you stand out.

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

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.

When you think about the passion that's involved wth Jamaican culture, it's like, they're not sitting around waiting for things to get all pretty: they want it raw and dutty.