I'm just so happy and proud of everybody and what everybody's doing. From Curren$y doing decent numbers with the independent, digital release; from Asher selling 1.1 million-plus on iTunes with the single and almost at 200,000 [albums sold] now; Cudi got almost 4,000 BDS's a week; Mickey Factz doing the Rock The Bells tour; Blu signed a deal shortly after; Ace Hood had two very successful singles, another album getting ready to drop. Everybody's doing their thing, man.

One thing Jay z told me that always sticks with me, is that, the album is never how you viewed it to be.

Maybe they just like me because they like me, and they don't like me because they feel like they have to like me because they like this person or that person.

You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.

I'd love a super human memory. My memory has never been good.

I'm not really caught up with celebrity women. I think a regular girl that goes to school or works at a Complex or Spin or Blender or whatever, one of those magazines. She'd probably be flyer to me than the person she's writing about.

Jay-Z's my favorite rapper, but why can't I aspire to be better than him?