You’ve mentioned wondering about what you might do if you stopped rapping. Could you see yourself considering other artistic outlets?

I find myself with a camera a lot, like taking pictures. I love writing scripts for my videos. That excites me. Anything where I’m writing, I can paint pictures with words. Like poetry, man. That’s where my music stems from. But I like taking pictures, I like to get in depth with the camera.

Well let me ask you this, it’s a good exercise for what you think about artistically. Have you ever been to a haunted house?

Yes.

OK, so you’re immersed, all your surroundings are meant to affect you in a real way. Every part of a haunted house is designed so that you get scared. Can you imagine the opposite? Consider a completely empty room. You are allowed to use anything visual, mechanical, biological. You can change the walls, how it smells, the floors. What would that look like for you, if the point was the opposite of the haunted house? You want people to come out comfortable. You want people to come out happy.

OK, well when you first walk through the doors, I would have a girl maid. She got the maid clothes on. She’s cute, but she’s still professional. She asks what do you prefer to drink? All the walls are white. I got Mannie Fresh DJing. Keep in mind, everything is all white. White headphones, white linen. I got windows, windows on the backside of the house. We got Wiz Khalifa and Lil Wayne — it’s not a VIP section, almost like the kitchen area. You see clouds of smoke. Snoop Dogg’s in a chair, he’s not standing up. We got little yorkies just walking around. Shaved. You don’t know they’re yorkies, they’re small, shaved all the way.

I would hope just that scenery, weed, an A1 chef. I forgot his name but this great chef works at the airport, I would definitely have him there. And a stylist. I would also have a stylist there if you don’t feel comfortable put on whatever you want. Create your own outfit. Create your own shoe. No money, no signs of money.

The object is to get the game. You see what you can learn from him, you see what you can learn from him. The game is to get the jewels from the people around you. Hopefully by the end, you should go out a new man. You’d be a whole lot smarter than you were. If I could get 30 minutes, I could get 5 minutes from Mannie, 5 minutes from Wayne, Snoop, Wiz. I’d even get some time from the waitress and the stylist, too, because it’s a reason they’re in this house. That’ll be the point. To learn new things that have nothing to do with money. Just become a better person. But my question would be to each one of them. What encouraged you? Who impacted you when you was young and said man, “This is what I wanna do”? What made you fall in love with music, Lil Wayne? What made you fall in love with 808s, Mannie Fresh? Snoop and Wiz, why does weed enhance your mind? What does weed do for you that it doesn’t do for other people? And I’d just want to become a smart person, those are the people I’d want to be in a room with. And Jay Z would be somewhere in there. Moguls. A stylist. My clothes are a reflection of me. I just wanna see what everyone would wear if they could afford it. What would you really wear if there was no cost on nothing? Because your outfit is the definition of you. I can look at someone’s outfit and know so much about them.