No one wants to hear me over some smooth, regular beat, or just into the times. I try to do records sometimes that have a different bounce - maybe it's a Southern bounce or something. And people shoot me all day long.

I was going through a time where I was like man I wanted all of my clothes to be totally understated and I would do pop color with hats from a line called Ale et Ange out of New york City. They created all these hats and I just thought they were super fresh and the only way that I could really get them across...I was just like, 'Let me make everything mute and just put on the hat.'

I've never been - I don't think I'm, like, a great A&R, by any means. I don't even know production lingo, in all honesty.

Fashion right now, people are so...everything is driven by the aesthetic.

As a writer, you have a huge ego. You think that every line means something to everybody the same way it means to you. And that's not true.

I don't think I'm a collector. I think every kid from where I'm from had a terrible passion for having to have fresh kicks.

For me, being a rap fan and the nostalgia of me being a kid, rappers and guys on the street told me everything to wear. That was it. I didn't necessarily read too many fashion books. Then it got competitive in junior high school. It was moreso about, "You don't got these." Everybody could be fresh, but you don't got these.