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

It's true, the Shaolin and the Wu-Tang, could be dangerous.

In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

I think a lot of people can learn from listening to hip hop. It ain't always about beats and rhymes.

But 'Cuban Linx' was a project that really needed to come, and I really wanted to get it off my chest because I know that the fans were really skeptical about it, like 'is this really gonna be what it's supposed to be?' So once everybody caught it for what it was and everybody was happy, that's mission accomplished for me.

As an artist, it's so important to create music that puts a chill through your body or does something to make you feel good. I think my album has a little bit of everything in it and that's important to me.

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