As an artist, I have to be a leader of my fans, not like follow them. Because if I chose to follow them, you know, they could do it.

Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.

Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build

I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props.

Coltrane had a sax, Dale Earnhardt drives a race car and everybody has their tools.

I feel like I have way more resources, way more experience. I'm better. But my fans romanticize the earlier stuff, and I don't think it's just like a nostalgia thing of "He's not as good" - I think it's because that earlier stuff was aggressively marketed as a lifestyle to them.

Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the radio, you're at a loss.