You'll never get me to speak religion. You'll never get me to speak politics.
While I understand the Howard Stern comparisons to help contextualize my craft for other people, and while I relate to the moral stance he took against a bigger corporate machine, that's probably where our similarities stop.
I've always been outspoken. I've always been honest. I've always said things that maybe other people were afraid to say.
There's no one aspect of my life that is more hidden than others. I mean, everything is pretty much an open book in every regard: relationships, personal, business, music, family, problems, demons, everything is well documented.
My mom's mission my entire teenage years was just to save my life.
I have a few theories and trains of thought that I wouldn't expose because they are not anyone's business. I hold them sacred, it's how I feel, it's my opinion, not up for debate, and not meant to be shared.
I want to get us out of a place where the veterans are chastising the new artists and vice versa. I think we should all just support each other.
Before I judge someone, I need to talk to them and learn what their journey's are.
I will alway support anybody being vocal about their mental illness, how they're dealing with it, and how it affects them. And I'll always support people waking up and paying attention to that.
I'm such a spiritual man. I think that displayed in the music throughout the course of my career.
I couldn't tell you what the standing is in radio, I'm in the streaming world. I'm in the podcasting world. Radio just sounds archaic almost. It's a never-ending battle. I'm so glad I'm retired so I don't have to see the nonsense.
For me, honest critique is not all about your feelings and your ear. Honest critique is sitting down with an album that you may not put on in your spare time, and really digging into that album, so you can talk about the beat selection.
Remember the Titans' is one of my favorites, not so much because of the actual record, but because there's so many different backstories.
At Revolt, everyone's always open minded and always coming together for a solution.
My relationship with my first child was nonexistent. I was broke and I was a new rapper whose career was spiraling downward.
I was just rapping as a pastime and I became good at it. So much so that by the time my Def Jam contract was in front of me, I didn't have a rap name.
You put your blood, sweat, and tears into an album and you think that's where it ends, but no - when you go on tour you're still carrying the life of that album and the life of those songs until you put your next project out.
I'm the first person to shamelessly admit that I don't know it all. With that said, my attitude is if such that if I don't know something I want you to enlighten and inform me so we can grown and get somewhere together - even if that means we ultimately agree to disagree.
You have to remember, throughout my career, no one has ever really wanted to speak to me or wanted to sit down with me.
I always viewed myself as kind of hip-hop's outcast, or hip-hop's stepson.
