Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.

I was always the type of person, and still am the type of person, that I cannot be creative and use substances. So from a very early age I knew that if I wanted to make music, successfully, in any capacity, I was going to have to get sober.

I definitely use 'smiling while rapping' as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording.

We are what we wear, we wear what we are

I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order to be successful. And that machine is what is going to work for them - there's tons of examples of pop stars who need that machine.