I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today

Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic

No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better to talk in certain expressions than sing, you know? So I love, I love to rhyme when I want to express certain things.

You might see a female, and she triggers something, or you see an old lady walking down the street, she triggers something. You go to Africa, you see the vibes, that triggers something.

I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.