You'd have to be kind of a bonehead not to feel pressure.

You'd have to be kind of a bonehead not to feel pressure.

No one goes to BrooklynVegan to read about content, they just go for drama. It's a tabloid, the scum of indie.

Radio is so cutthroat, but I do feel like the music industry is structured so differently than it used to be. I'm amazed and in awe of artists who can build a parallel universe that's so big and clearly defined that the mainstream finally has to pay attention.

Brooklyn is a hub; people move to Brooklyn because of what's already in Brooklyn.

It's a lot different being a hip-hop artist. You just show up with a piece of paper with your words on it, say it in the mic, then you leave and some other guy does all the music.

You know how some trees have those ear mushrooms that just grow off, and you could live on one of those mushrooms and not realize that there was stacks and stacks of others? That's how I describe music scenes in New York. That's one of the trippiest things about living here - just how many parallel universes there are that you can be completely unaware of.