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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.

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

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

I'm never doing a new album. I'll probably do nothing but singles. I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history. But I don't know how much longer I'll be doing it. It's not really fun anymore.

It must surprise people that I'm such a rap fan, but it's true. Sometimes, just staying in, putting on some rap music, and letting loose is all I need to have a good time.

I don't listen to much rap, really. I can rarely listen to a whole record of it, because musically, it's very formulaic, and oftentimes it doesn't have the best hooks on every track.

I'm not really into rap.

I don't really listen to rap; I just like to rap.

Just knowing how to rap doesn't necessarily mean that you're a good songwriter.