No.

Like, I was all up in that shit, and I remember the first time, this is what kinda made me stop, um, battle rapping, was it was, I was the hottest dude in the city.

I was younger, and there was this older battle rapper.

And, um, everyone was like, "They gotta go at each other.

This is gonna be the craziest battle on the south side." And I was like, "Yep, let's go." And the, e- everything was freestyle.

And, uh, you know, I had, I, I went in with, like, four lines, but we're doing 16 bars, 16 bars, 16 bars, 16 bars, 16 ba- like, until there was a winner.

So I'm up there, I'm like boom, boom, boom.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Even when it goes quick, even when it goes fast, it's still such a fucking grind.

I was on a road...

Fuck, Mike.

I don't know, man.

How can we even explain that? Uh, really small shows at- Dive bars, getting into fist fights with, in the crowd, j- you know, no backstages, shitting in fucking bags 'cause there's no, ain't no p- you know, uh- Mm-hmm ...

plastic bag.

You know what I'm saying? Like, pissing in bottles, uh, uh, in my own 15-passenger van 'cause, you know- Jesus ...

That's, it's, yeah, that, that's-

Say it's the best album you've ever done

This is, this is by far the best album I've ever done.

The past few years I've been working on it, I've been sharing it with my friends, the producers and everything, and all, the, the whole way along they've been like, "This is crazy." Like really crazy comparisons to me and other people that, that...

And from people I trust.

So I'm like, okay, so all these songs feel really special and, and, uh, so I just went crazy.

I rabbit holed myself and I'm doing wild shit.

I'm like, all right, then if this is like the best shit, I'm gonna go all the way balls to the wall where I can't, you know, find any little tiny minutia that I would've done better.

Yeah.

Or would there be others, other-

... yeah, there might be a new kind of crew from a different area out of town who'd come in, and we'd be like, "What's up?" Uh, but we owned that motherfucker, right, Mike? You, m- me, Roswell, Scotchy, Albert.

Like, my crew was like, especially the Dinkytowner in Minneapolis.

Like, bitch, we, that was us.

And then we'd, you know, some new people come in.

I'd do some battling, or, or we'll see a show or something, get drunk.

My, my, my bro Roswell would probably start a fight, punch some dude at the bar in the face who was maybe talking about some, one of us.

Yeah.