“If you would have asked me two weeks ago [about the status], I would have told you I was 30 percent, man, [now it's] 70,” Cole revealed in an interview. “Like 75, like, this is how many songs, I hit a little streak and now I got some stuff that’s impressing me. Like, ‘Man, did I just do this song?’ I got in with [producer] No I.D. and now, you gotta understand, I’ve been doing music, myself, my own beats, since I was making my own songs, so it’s hard to allow somebody to come in but now the way that we make music, it isn’t just ‘Oh yeah, I got this beat for you, rap on this beat,’ he’s in there, I’m in there, there’s a guitar player, key player, it feels like you’re making an album.”