If I'm going to make music for the streets or the clubs or whatever, I go at it with 110 percent.

People in the media, it makes their day when someone they say is a five-star artist goes platinum.

I was one of the first artists to have a YouTube account, if not the first. I joined two months after the site launched.

Well before I was rapping. I was just a regular kid in school. I just liked to chill my friends and play games and stuff like that. One day at school my friends were freestyling at the lunch table and thats where it all started.

I think swag is very important to rappers. It's the overall appearance and style of an artist - these blue shorts and this blue hat and this $80,000 chain, this jewelry and all these tattoos, that's swag.

My first single I was nominated for a Grammy with 'Crank That,' and I lost a Grammy to Kanye West, but it was still such a big deal for me to be nominated anyway.

If I'm going to make music for the streets or the clubs or whatever, I go at it with 110 percent.