I Love The Energy That Comes When

When You Devote Yourself To Being An Artist, You Have To Stay On Your Craft And Always Try To Get Better And Better.

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?

As An Artist, It's So Important To Create Music That Puts A Chill Through Your Body Or Does Something To Make You Feel Good. I Think My Album Has A Little Bit Of Everything In It And That's Important To Me.

You Know The Things I Went Through As A Youngster, Coming Into The Business, All The Good, The Bad And The Ugly That Came. I'd Had A Rough Life. I Grew Up Single Parent. My Mom, She Was Like A Father To Me.

Before I Think We Was Emcees, We Was More Or Less Narrators Too. Because If You Look At The Early '80s Hip Hop, It Was So Much Creativity Goin' On With Artists Like Then, Like Slick Rick, Then You Had Rakim, And You Had These Different Kind Of Artists Back Then. And We Was A Marble Cake Of All These Artists. So I Didn't Have A Problem With Writin' Stories Because I Felt Like That Was Somethin' I Loved To Do. Even To This Day, I Really Consider Myself An Entertainer-slash-narrator. I Like To Talk About Stuff That Goes On.