The World Brought Me To My Knees,

It Feels Good, You Know. It Feels Like You're Out There, You Know, Doin' Your Own Thing, Know What I'm Sayin'? It's Like, People Can't Really Compare It To Anything, And That Kinda Feels Good. It Opens Me Up To A Lot Of Different Arenas, A Lot Of Different Type Of Situations, You Know Like Tony Hawk Will Call. You Know What I'm Sayin'? I Can Just Image If My Songs Was About Shootin' Up, And Like Sellin' Cocaine, I Doubt Tony Hawk Would Be Callin' You Know?

Some Stuff I Don't Even Put Out. I'll Just Be Home, Happy, Creating Something For Myself, And Then Ball It Up And Throw It In The Trash. It's Less About Trying To Prove Something Or Get On Somebody's List Or Make A Fan Happy Or Make A Hater Mad Or Convert A Non-believer. That's Not The Case For Me Anymore.

With 'hip-hop Saved My Life,' I Attempted To Make 'kick, Push,' But For Rappers. To Give A Real Basic Play-by-play Of The Life Of A Rapper Before He Makes It - If He Ever Makes It, Because You Can Get Stuck In That And Be Trying To Make It For The Rest Of Your Life.

It Definitely Wasn't Like, 'hey, I'm Going To Steal That, And Nobody's Going To Know.' The Original 't.r.o.y.' Came Out In 1992, And It Was Like A 20th Anniversary Kind Of Thing. All Of Those Intentions Were There For It To Be Resurrecting A Classic For A New Generation. I Tried To Honor It.

With Australian Audiences, There's A Certain Level Of Education - As Far As How Much Access And Exposure They Have To Music From Various Genres. So When You Do 'big Day Out' And There Are All These Different Musical Acts, You See The Same People In Your Crowd That Were There For A Completely Different Artist.