I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
NasI think it's harder to make a classic now, not because of what people say, but because artists now are so concerned with what people say.
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