Prodigy

My favorite Eminem song is probably 'Lose Yourself' because I can relate to it a lot. That's how I feel every time I write a rhyme.

In the era we came up in, you had to have your own thing.

In my lyrics, I used to always state two years ahead. I did that to make it seem like we were ahead of our time - a time capsule almost. It had never been done before.

When I said, 'I'm only 19, but my mind is old' - at that time, when I said that line, I was 18.

I'm a creative person, and I'm gonna be creative, so whoever's upset because of that, that's too bad.

I just love his creativity; that's what I'm talking about as far as being unique and creative and different. Kanye is doing it.

When we first signed to Loud, we had a 20-song demo. So all of those songs we wanted to put on the album. But we started making new ones, and through process of elimination, we wanted all the new ones. We didn't like the old ones no more.

The music is just real powerful when Mobb Deep and Nas work together.

We'll never change the fact that we are hardcore hip-hop and we make rebellious hip-hop music, and we're going to keep doing that and progress with our production, progress with our lyrical styles, be creative, and just have fun with it.

We started writing songs like 'Shook Ones' and 'Survival of the Fittest' explaining our neighborhood, but more our personal lives.