Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good. You got a handful of great guys - Ne-Yo, R. Kelly, Usher. You have a handful of great female artists. But for the most part the music world's changing and change is good. You have to make adjustments if you want to survive in that world. You start to thinking about creative moments - bliss. When everything was all good. You realize that in comparison to the way hip-hop started off, where we should be at right now is not there.

Your look reflects whats happening in your mind.

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

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

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.

If you really believe in yourself and your music that much, you're gonna do your thing, regardless what people say.

If I made an album just to sell you a story about how I'm the man, it really doesn't show any human side to me. It's good to talk about what's real and what's relevant.