I think you gotta always do things that keep you excited in an [rap music] industry that's so bullshit. When you know that you have so much energy and so much to give, it would be a shame if the facilitators of that aren't enthusiastic about you doing it, because you've been doing it for so long. So you just gotta figure out ways in this insane business to keep it fresh.

I set it off with my own rhyme / cause I'm as ill as a convict who kills for phone time

People have stopped battling in hip hop, in the primitive sense, and the focus of the competitive element has shifted to the music. It's less about bragging and more about being the best lyrically and poetically.

You don't want to disappoint. Especially someone like me who's been out of music for years and hasn't had an album in like, four years.

No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done

People give me a better understanding on things that I said, or a different way to look at it.

Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.