You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.

This was the toughest game, all the pontificators, all the people on the radio, the print media saying, 'Well, you guys haven't won in 21 years. That creates a negative flow.

Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.

You have to be yourself.

I ain't want my kids to grow up and call me Thug. I don't want anybody to kind of look at me like that. So I'm gonna just use my real name.

Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.