For your next single 'Change Your Life, you sing - why was this important to you?
I don’t think it’s so important for me to sing, but everybody my whole life has always said, 'you can sing, you can sing, why don’t you sing?' And I've always been so against singing because I didn't want people to push me in the direction of doing that or making pop music, before I had a solidified fan base. I'm really passionate about rap music and I wanted to make sure people knew that’s what I care about, thats what I am. I’ll never make a pop song where I just sing, that will never happen. So before I ever went into doing melodic things or singing or anything like that, I wanted to make sure I've established myself and I think it’s good to have surprises. I wanted to leave something for the album, where I'm giving you something new that you didn't know about me, that I could do or something about my story you didn't know. Just new things that make the album great and different from mix tapes. I'm two singles in now, I haven’t sung yet though I think it’s just nice to add another thing I can showcase that I can do. Having a nice melody in a song doesn't hurt either, that’s always good and also to just add something new and say 'hey, this is something new for the album that you haven’t heard before of me and here it is'. It’s interesting.
I know the album is ready, how excited are you to put it out in September and what can fans expect?
I can’t reveal anything yet I've got stuff and collaborations I'm working on seeing if they’ll end up on my album or other people's albums, things like that but I'm excited... I'm still anxious a little bit. I don’t know what to expect, other people don’t know what to expect and I don’t know what to expect. I know what expect from my album, but you just never know. I think it’s good, but will you think its good? Will this be better than what you expected? Do you expect more than what I think you do? Will it be bad? I don’t know, I don’t think it will be bad. I feel very good about it, everyone that’s heard it seems to be very impressed and surprised by it.
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