Eminem

“ I’d love to work with Eminem. It just hasn’t happened yet. ”

“[after meeting Eminem for the first time] Goal list check: I told him Relapse was one of the greatest albums to me.”

“ [Eminem] overcoming his own adversities, winning the battle against his own demons and continuing to break the mold and re-set the standard of what it means to be the most successful hip-hop artist in the game…I salute that to no end. ”

“ We went on a Desire [on Pink Friday] and put it in the air like, ‘It’d be great if he would collaborate with us.’ I remember I kept talking about it, and I thought, ‘It can’t hurt.’ I sent him one record, and he didn’t love it. He didn’t say, ‘I don’t love it,’ he just said, ‘Can you send me something that’s a little more me?’ I sent him an e-mail and thanked him for that, just having enough respect. Sometimes people don’t respond. He had the respect, at least, to treat me like a peer. ”

“ I don’t know if I’m on his radar yet, but I used to hang Eminem’s raps on my wall. ”

“ Why doesn’t he go to another country? I mean, go take a knee someplace else. ”

“ Em definitely influenced a lot in my style. I don’t think nobody’s matching him now. ”

” The first time somebody said to me that they thought Eminem sounded like me, I personally didn’t hear that. To me, he sounded unique… he sounded like nobody that I had ever heard before. ”

“ (on listening to Eminem’s delivery for the first time) It was like you were listening to a scientist. ”

“ (on possibly collaborating with Eminem) Em, I promise you I been watching you for so long. I been a fan, so I wouldn’t even ask you to get on a record unless I felt like it was that record. I just want to get the record into your hands, then if you want to turn me down after that, then you can turn me down. ”