Akon

Nigga, this nigga out here now, he killing the streets.

And he played me his mixtape.

But I was so busy doing so much, and I was so busy on the Gaga stuff.

I had just turned down Justin Bieber because I didn't have time for that because I had Kobe O'Donis.

Yeah, it's like those things.

And then I had one of my security guys, 2T's, was constantly on me about Kendrick.

Like literally for a whole year, like, yo, I'm telling you, Con, you got it.

I'm telling you.

But it just, at the time, it was so much happening that I just didn't have the time to do it.

And then Dre ended up picking up Kendrick.

And then Dre would beat me down to do production for Kendrick.

But everybody was needing me, and I just, there was no time.

You know what I'm saying?

And I never had the time to stop and listen to see, to hear even the genius of what Kendrick was.

I didn't miss out.

No, I didn't miss out.

No, I did.

I missed it.

Literally, had I had an infrastructure, they would have all been bagged at that time.

But it was just all me doing my own A&R and doing my own everything.