Maejor Ali On 'Lolly,' Justin Bieber, Why He Changed His Name

Working with Justin is awesome. Working with him is dope because he's such a talent. He can play instruments, he can sing, he can write, rap, he can do pretty much anything!

I'm always looking for people. I try to bring people from different worlds together, like 'Lolly' has Juicy J and Justin Bieber from two different worlds. Not every song, but I like to collaborate with different people, it makes the music more interesting.

No, not yet.

No, no tattoos. I've just never seen anything that I wanted stamped down.

I never really knew, I just kind of fell into it. I just discovered it and I liked it.

Inspiration comes from everywhere. If you keep your mind open, you can be inspired by anything.

Working with Juicy J is dope. He's so creative and he knows what he wants to do, what sounds he wants, so working with him is pretty easy, too. He knows how he wants to do things. I loved working with him. One thing I'd want people to know is that he's a producer and a sound engineer, so when he records, he's not recording like any other rappers. When he's recording, he's doing something creative. He's edits, he's really doing a lot more than people can see. He's doing a lot more different things than people know, and he's a lot more talented than people think.

I was playing a lot of sports, a lot of basketball. I grew up in Detroit. I got into music around the time I turned 16 or something like that. I didn't expect anything to come from it but it's cool that it did. I'm enjoying it.

I was inspired by the story of Muhammad Ali. At the top of his career, when he won a championship, he was drafted to fight in the Vietnam War. At the time, he didn't support the war for hir personal beliefs. There were a lot of things going on at the time and he didn't want to kill anyone. He lost his title when he refused to go to war and it cost him a lot of money and his title. He was almost in jail and all of that. Anybody that faces losing a lot like that and still stands by what they believe, I think that's heroic. I wanted to take that spirit in my music. I felt like it fit so I took the name 'Ali'.

I'm not sure. When I made a mix tape before, it was for fun. Now things are moving faster, and I'm getting ready to release my next music, so I don't know.

A mystery, a mystery. I don't want to describe it.