What I did in '06 with 'Port of Miami' was classic for that era, for that time frame, and in 2017, 'Rather You Than Me' will be the same.
Five years before 'Port of Miami,' I was to a point where I may have even felt like quitting... the style and the wordplay of my lyricism was more complex than what Miami was used to.
I do see a lot of young artists who write records or sacrifice records, because there are a lot of older artists who are preoccupied; they don't have as much time as they used to to be in the studio.
If you set a regimen up, you can lose weight. I grinded my weight off.
When I used to sit in the office with Jay Z and L.A. Reid... we would negotiate back and forth and discuss music. You're sitting in front of someone for hours. It's all about being passionate. Everything begins with yourself.
When Rick Ross made 'Hustlin',' Rick Ross also helped those producers become some of the biggest producers in the world.
I've got a record titled 'Idols Become Rivals,' and it's basically me writing a letter to someone in the game that I looked up to damn near the most, and I hate what things have come to.
At the end of the day, I'm the biggest boss. I'm self-made.
With me being an artist that took over a decade to get on, there's so many different things that I have in common with artists that's struggling to get on.
I'm fortunate enough to socialize with some of the greatest musicians around.
My father watched all the 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' that you could imagine, along with the martial arts. So I was into all that as a youngster, and I always rooted for the bad guy.
I'll always be a supporter of Reebok. That's a forever thing.