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A star's the work - the work ethic you put into the business, and the people you excite. We only wanted to excite only a few people at that time, which was some o' the emcees that was hot that was in the game.

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.

Soul music has so many great artists who put their thing down. That's important.

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

Ghost tells me every few years, Yo, you showed me this style ... I'm like, man, we the same style. At the end of the day, he's one of my favorite rappers, I'm one of his favorite rappers, and we just do it.

All I did was take my time, figure out where I made a lot of mistakes and try not to make them no more.