Sometimes I’ll have been up all night thinking about it, and then I finally get to the studio, listen to it front to back, and I’m like, “Man, this is a good record. So now I’ve crafted my own interpretations on that that apply to my life, and I’m just wondering, Are those going to work now? ’Cause it’s just me. I was taking other people’s music and revamping it. I mean, we knew it meant something to us, but we also sat there, like, “Man, are people going to accept this? A rapper that’s singing?” And I’m not just doing melodies, I’m singing. Yeah, ’cause I started the mixtape off with an R&B song about women that were lost in the world. I thought I had made the biggest mistake of my life. That’s the best part about it, because that’s what makes my music better and pushes me to keep working on it, as opposed to just being, like, “Okay, it’s done.” I wasn’t confident when I dropped So Far Gone, neither. And I make R&B, and hip-hop, so I’m not only thinking about the rappers-I’m thinking about the Dreams, the MGMTs, just great music on a whole. But when you’re in it, you also start thinking about, Well, I can’t get lost in that. Carter IV’s gonna drop as soon as Wayne gets out. Even from, like, is coming out again, MGMT. You know, you’ve got OutKast rumored to be coming out. And you start thinking about yourself fitting into that, you know? Like, last year, other than Blueprint 3, it was a pretty dry year for hip-hop, as far as, like, the legends. You start hearing other people’s hits and sound, and you start thinking, Wow, okay, this is all the music that’s coming out this year. And now it’s so crazy, because, to be in the industry, a lot of people start playing you their music. That’s just the artist in myself competing with myself. If I was like, “Yeah, this is it, this is the one.” I’m still listening to it, and I’m like, “Man, I don’t know, it could be better.” But that’s just me. If it was effortless, then I’d be scared. If you’re not struggling, then there’s something wrong. Has it been hard getting your debut together, to live up to that hype?
So since the success of your mixtape So Far Gone you’ve become rap’s golden child. But, at the same time, on any given day, she’s, like, the love of my life… Nicki’s a very intriguing character.
That’s, like, we have the most interesting relationship, ’cause it’s so multilayered. And to be doing it with Nicki, man, that’s my dog.
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