Shyne: 'I don't care if I sell one album'

Shyne has admitted that he doesn't care if he only sells one album.

The New York rapper, who began work on his first album in over a decade earlier this year, has revealed that his rhyming style has changed and insisted that artistic integrity is more important to him than selling millions of records.

Speaking to Hip Hop DX, the 31-year-old said: "People should be happy that I changed... I was monotonous and angry. I can't give them that old s**t. That anger you heard in the booth was really me. It was like listening to someone with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

"I'm comfortable with [my new style]. I figured it out, but I'm not a communist. People want that s**t, but I can't give it to them in the old way... I'm not no f**king magician. You gotta make that s**t... It's about having character and integrity. I don't care if I only sell one album."