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When You Think Of A Chef You Think Of Somebody That Could Cook - You Don't Think Of Chef That Says, 'yo, I Make Only Steaks'. No. A Chef Knows How To Bake, He Knows How To Fry, He Knows How To Sautee, He Knows How To Do Everything That's Pertaining To Food, And That's How I Felt About My Lyrical Position. It's Like I Would Say, 'today I'm Gonna Make A Hot Salmon. Tomorrow I Make You Spaghetti. The Next Day I Make You Baked Fish'. This Is How My Lyrical Content In My Head Was Already Bein' Reciprocated To The World, Bein' Given To Y'all Like That.

But 'cuban Linx' Was A Project That Really Needed To Come, And I Really Wanted To Get It Off My Chest Because I Know That The Fans Were Really Skeptical About It, Like 'is This Really Gonna Be What It's Supposed To Be?' So Once Everybody Caught It For What It Was And Everybody Was Happy, That's Mission Accomplished For Me.

Soul Music Has So Many Great Artists Who Put Their Thing Down. That's Important.

When I'm Making The Music, I Feel Like Everything I Throw Out Has To Work. It Counts. Because If You Don't Have People Turning They Neck All The Way Around To See What It Is, It Ain't Stick On The Wall.

I Think That, Right Now, I Am Travelling In Many Different Directions In My Mind, On Where I Wanted To Be. So Much Is Wantin' To Go Back, But I Still Gotta Move Forward. But I Think It's Just That I'm My Worst Critic At All Times, You Know? And When I Make Somethin', It May Be Five Or Ten Cuts Later Before I Actually Call It What It Is. I've Always Been That Kind Of Artist. I'm Gonna Put Myself Through The Sweat For It, Because I Think, As An Artist, That's What Made Me Iller, Is The Fact That I Didn't Wanna Just Put Out Anything And Everything. It's Just A Process, You Know What I Mean?