It wasn't necessary to speak on the recession, you know what I mean, but I just though it made a lot of sense. I was like, "okay, cool," I'm going to go with this approach for the name of the album [ The Recession].

You seen my shows; I bring the 'hood out.

It's not the average people that come to my show.

The craziest thing is that the song ["My President"] is real but you can still hear it in the club.

I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.

Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.

Love don't love nobody got me feeling like, I shouldn't love myself