According to various sources, you are currently signed to Mosley Music Group. How would you describe your musical partnership with Timbaland?
Well, let me set the record straight. I am no longer signed to Mosley Music Group! [laughing] I had a situation with Mosley Music Group in the beginning and Timbaland gave me some good tips. He gave me this secret, the recipe to making good records. He told me a little bit about how when you're making a record in terms of the music, how to make it go together the best. But I think that everything kind of got political. We had a vision and we had a direction. But he had a lot going on and he also had a direction. So we kind of like veered off into our own directions. Right now, I just felt like I got to focus on me. Timbaland is a very, very good producer and I'm looking forward to doing a lot of records with him in the future. But now, I'm just trying to define who I am as an artist. I want to make sure that I'm confident with that. You got to know because a producer can't tell you who you are.
Sonically, The Wizard of Iz is different from Kizzaland. How would you describe your evolution between these two mixtapes?
Kizzaland was like a collection of records that I've done over time. That was more along the lines of me getting to know myself on the microphone and seeing what works best for me. I came out with a lot of them and I was like, "Wow, these are awesome records." We just put them on there because they were fresh and new. Kizzaland didn't really have the dialogue whereas The Wizard of Iz is more focused. I was finding my voice. We're just scratching the surface of what I really could do. It still hasn't reached its full potential. I'm getting to know myself as an artist and it shows in the record.
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