When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.
When I finish writing a rap verse. It's a lot like sex: You start off slow with ideas, like foreplay, and then you put your all into it. When you end it with the perfect thought, it's like that perfect last stroke.
It's not like I'm not writing great music anymore, it's just that I want to take it another level.
I write best about two things, which is evident from the cover of So Far Gone: the constant quest to understand love and money.
When I write I like to just say everything that people think about but never express vocally. I just get deep into it; I'm a bit obsessive about music.
