I love rapping. I do. My styling's similar to Missy Elliott - I think she's so dope. In a weird way, that's how I first learned the American accent: doing American rap songs.
I listened to Lil Wayne a lot when I was kid.
I always heard 50 Cent, Da Brat, Lil' Kim, all that in the house. My mom's playing them - 50 Cent, Kanye West.
I was a real big fan of Lil Wayne when he first came out.
Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic drama set to music. He is really good storyteller.
There were people who had sampled my voice from speeches when I was an Islamist and made them the chorus of pro-Islamist rap songs who then began talking about me as an apostate.
My friends put me on to Mobb Deep when I was a little kid. I've always been a big fan.
Bone Thugs is one of my favorite rap groups of all time. I listened to them all the time when I was a kid.
When I started picking out music for myself, I was a hip-hop kid. DMX, The Roots, Outkast, people like that.
I've got a lot of songs about having fun and partying, but it's a lot of work. Sometimes, I make 50 songs and pick out the best 10. I've been in the studio all day, all night, making the beat, writing the raps.
I like music, I listened to all rappers; people like Jeezy, Yo Gotti, T.I.
A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.
