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All I can say is that I've had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I'm doing. I know where I'm coming from, and the album speaks for itself.

To be honest, making albums is really never easy. It's always a bit excruciating because there's always this fight to make it great, and then you hit these stumbling blocks along the way.

Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

I love hip-hop and soul, but I desperately want to challenge it and see what I can bring to it.

I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done.

When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.

I always love making albums. I'm passionate about it and it's something that's healthy for the soul and spirit.

I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me.

It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.