Be mindful of everything going on around you and always be on point but don't be so on point that you lose that ability to be what it was that got you out there.

I'm at a point where I let my mind go with flow of the music I'm making and it's not interrupted by me trying to please everybody.

As an artist when you come into [hip hop] you don't know nothing really. You just know what you do and it's free of the influences of money, power and all these other things people learn about the further they get into it.

I could cover the gamut. It's cool though you go in for an hour, read the script, leave and you got a check.

I'm just the type of person that realizes that someone is always going to have something to say so I could care less about it.

When I did The Natural that album was done from the perspective of a kid from Queens that was 19-20 years old who doesn't know that much about the industry.

The public doesn't get to see everything. I worked with X a couple times since then. Me and X have a close relationship. We actually did a record they were going to put on the Training Day soundtrack but he ending up buying the record from me and putting it on Great Depression as a bonus track.