I'm not so much into the beats. I'm more into the spiritual side of the music.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm not trying to make beats that are better than somebody else's. I'm trying to make beats that are genuine to me.
I'm more into beats than rhymes. I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes. Dancing is kind of my thing. I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I'm always drawn to girls with rhythm.
As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.
I never made beats to make beats; I only made them when there was a record to make them for. That's one of the things that has changed in hip-hop that's made me like it less. It feels much more like it's a producer-driven medium, where there are all these tracks that are completely interchangeable.
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.
There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want.
I've always gravitated towards the beats, obviously. And when I was growing up, I always loved funk music or even - dare I say it - disco.
I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before.
I love good beats and good lyrics. I'm pretty open.
Everything in my life has been about sound and making music, so Beats represents just that - the improvement of sound and the dedication to everything I've been doing from the day I started.