I love 'Harry Potter' and JK Rowling - don't laugh at me!

I just want my fans to grow up and enjoy the music first, I don't want to change the world that's not what my music is about.

I'm getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am.

My real name's Rakim - my parents named me after the god MC himself.

For me, growing up in Harlem and then migrating down to SoHo and the Lower East Side and chillin' down there and making that my stomping ground... That was a big thing, because I'm from Harlem, and downtown is more artsy and also more open-minded. So I got the best of both worlds.

Nowadays, everybody wanna be weird. We know how to manifest being weird.

I wanna make music that I feel proud of when I'm onstage, that I feel like I put my all into.