Lanez: Definitely. There are a lot of kinds of music I want to do, but I don't want to do it until I'm musically ready. I don't anything to come off corny, or like I'm forcing it. I want it to come naturally.
Q: How do you think being from Toronto made its mark on you as an artist?
Lanez: Toronto is a very multicultural place, and I think that because of that, it's helped me to always make music that was cultural, music that felt good with multiple different races of people.
Q: I watched an interview where you called hip-hop a "contact sport." What do you mean by that?
Lanez: It's a competition. It's a ruthless competition where people will go to the ends of the earth to pull you down to get up. You have to constantly defend your relevancy at all times. It's not like everyone's just friendly. For me personally, it's a contact sport, even if the contact is verbal.
Q: For all that competition, hip-hop is also very collaborative. "Memories Don't Die" has at least eight other artists on it. Why is bringing those other people in important to you?
Lanez: I've done so much solo music, I feel like I've established that I know how to make good records by myself. Sometimes records will be bigger if other people's fanbases get to experience the records, as well. At the end of the day, I needed to step out of my shell and start recording with other people, so maybe someone would be like, "Damn, OK, this guy is good. He's messing with my favorite artist, so it's OK in my book." I'm going to be the biggest artist in the world someday, and to do that, I know I have to connect everywhere.
Q: That leads into my next question, actually. You come across very ambitious but also really confident. Where does that confidence come from?
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