For the album, how was working with 9th Wonder?
JG: When the album started, we had no idea where we where going. I usually have a pretty good idea, but so much was going on with the tour and so forth. We had gone on the Winter Break Okayplayer tour and we opened my set remaking [Jay-Z’s] “Threat”. Then I heard Little Brother was going to be on the tour and I hadn’t really listened to their stuff, but once we met, everybody clicked. 9th wasn’t on tour until the fourth date, so Pooh and Phonte came up to be my back-up dancers in the meantime. When we finally had a show with 9th, he’d said he’d come on stage and we’d do the whole intro like off album. So we started talking and I was like, “We gotta do something for the album.” We went down to North Carolina and did two tracks. After finishing “Don’t Rush Me”, it was amazing. I didn’t tell him where to do the drops or anything and it worked perfectly– very easy. I didn’t write anything before getting down there and he didn’t have any pre-made beats, so we just kept working. It reminded
