I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

Fans are all I care about - to be honest. If they stop coming to the shows, then I will get worried.

I can tell you that when you're willing to give your life up to see a dream through, the reward is great.

Skateboarding is a part of Hip-Hop culture. I think it's the fifth element of Hip-Hop - emceeing, deejaying, b-boying, graffiti, and skateboarding. Skateboarders live and die on the streets. It's expression - it's everything that Hip-Hop is.

There's no real outlet for making Hip-Hop in Alabama. You need to travel to get heard. You really need to be working though. You need to be going at it every day and getting yourself seen, getting yourself out there on the road, doing shows, making music. It's all about being on your grind.

Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that.

I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.