I've just really been into melody and lyrics and songwriting. Writing a rap, to me, is easy. I could write a rap like that. But writing songs and melodies and s**t that's hopefully going to stick around for 30, 40 years is f**king hard. . . If you have good songs and you're talented, people will eventually come to your shows, people will buy your music.
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