I take making music and the opportunity it brings very seriously, but let’s be honest, you and I both know there are more rappers better than me. This isn’t false humility; this is fact and I’m not ashamed. At the end of the day it doesn’t really matter to me. I want people to like my music, to think I did a good job, or even better, memorize it and be impacted by the words. What I don’t want is to be just a rapper. It’s not enough to merely lay verses down over beats.

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