The better you get, the more your legacy shines. I always just try to go hard. If you don't want do it for real, don't do it at all.

I always write to the moment. I've always been that kind of emcee. I don't wanna come in with all the paperwork and all o' that or whatever. That's good when you just an emcee from off the block that really don't have to work as hard as the next man. But when, you know... Y'all make me write like this, from, I guess, me makin' a classic and everybody callin' my stuff classic material - that makes me have to work ten times harder. But a lot o' times things just happen at the moment for me: spur o' the moment. That's just how it goes sometimes.

I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.

You know, I'm a product of my environment, gettin' into everything you know a kid my age would get into, a lot of negativity was surroundin' me. And we came, sat up and had a discussion about makin' a record, I think I was more or less overwhelmed with just that fact.

I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as an artist.

I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.

In order to be one of the greats, you've got to study the greats.