Young Thug: "I want everybody to know that I got a good heart."

Young Thug and Gucci Mane are on the cover of XXL's latest issue, and with that cover also comes an in-depth interviews that gives readers an intimate look into the rappers' worlds. For Young Thug, it's one where he loves fashion more than rap.

"Rap can open the door for fashion, but you gotta know fashion," Thug says in a video interview with XXL. "It's easy for me to be on any fashion line, it's easy for me to be fashionable; it's what I wanna do. But I had to learn rhythms, I had to learn a lot of stuff for rap, so I really focus on rap."

His main reason behind wanting to enter into the fashion industry, though, is to hopefully inspire those who wish to also pursue fashion, but are too afraid to do it: "I want to bring out encouragement to young people that want to do it, but kind of scared to do. That's my main reason to do it. I don't care if nobody ever looks at it. as long as I know I did and as long as somebody saw it and was like, 'I ain't scared, I'm gonna do that.'"

Young Thug also touches on where his place is in rap, and specifically, within the Atlanta rap scene. According to Thug, he fills in the gaps that Future, Jeezy, Ludacris, Gucci, and others are leaving behind. "I'm the new them," Thug says. "But I wanna be all of them in one, so that's why I'm kinda weird. I wanna talk about trap... I wanna be best dressed. All of those rappers that came out of Atlanta had one of those things, so I wanna have all of them in one."

Finally, the rapper also talks about why he wanted to transition from Young Thug to Jeffrey, explaining that he's simply "going back to [himself]," and how he only just recently learned how to "transition to streets and traps and those types of songs."

"I've always been Jeffrey; I got 5,000 songs as Jeffrey [...] I really had to learn how to make trap music." But the main reason as to why he wants to ditch the Young Thug persona is because he doesn't like the connotation that the world "thug" carries.

"I don't want people to be looking at me like 'thug.' I don't want people to be afraid... I want to be greeted the right way, embraced the right away because I really got a good heart, and I want everybody to know that I got a good heart."

Watch Young Thug's video interview with XXL above.