I feel like I'm being put inside a box, and I'm not necessarily getting a chance. Like I'm not getting the shot that I deserve. So that's what Rare is about 'cause I feel because I am the way that I am, and I don't necessarily fit the mold of a lot of different artists that's out, it's like I'm not getting the chance to show what I can do. So, that's basically all the frustration of that, and everything is pretty much Rare for me anyway.

[Writing] has helped me meet people.

I see men come and go, but there'll be one who'll collect my soul.

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

I am someone that follows the news and reads newspapers yet what do you believe and what don't you.

I feel like when I'm writing for other people, when I'm doing rap hooks, it's kinda like playing dress up for me...

My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.