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When You Grow Up In That Environment Of Drugs And Guns And People Gettin' Hurt, It Start To Reflect Your Background. And I Think, At That Time When I Was Doin' It, That's All I Knew. But As I Got Older In The Business, I Stopped Bein' Involved With That, And I Started To Look At The World. And I Said, 'yo, I Wanna Start Talkin' About Everything That Goes On In The World. I Don't Wanna Just Limit Myself To One Style'.

I Doubt If You Get Another Wu-tang Clan. That Might Be Harder Than Getting The New Jackson Five

I Think There Are A Lot Of Dudes Out There That Are Runnin' Out Of Gas. Some Of My Favourites, Even Ones I Look Up To... I Haven't Been Fully Impressed With Their Dynamics Of Makin' A Body Of Work That Makes Sense To Me.

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?

I Never Been A Hater Of These Other Cats, Who Never Really Had Nothing, Being Successful. That's Not My Problem.