College is a safe space where it can be hard to truly fail. The institution is rooting for you because your failure makes them look bad, too. New York City has no such mandate. I've had to hone and sharpen and refine my work here at a pace which may not have happened in other cities.

I am not a yogi yet, but I aspire to have more balance in my life.

There's certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don't pay active attention to, but to the extent that I represent some flavor of what's happening in hip-hop - it's subconscious.

As far as hip-hop is concerned, I'm no expert and rarely think consciously about how I "represent" hip-hop.

I work in comedy, journalism, media, and technology, many of which don't have a lot of black faces in visible positions. I walk through Brooklyn with a surfboard. It's fun to challenge and expand people's expectations.

New York has been the best gift, in that the city pushes me to so many next levels.

Okay, well, if motion is the constant, how can I remain in motion?