I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.

If you think about rap and how it has become so much easier to record music and release it, and you think about everyone in the world being a 'rapper' these days, it's so much easier. But it's still as hard as ever to break through and truly be successful in this industry.

If you get comfortable, that's how you fall off.

When you're choosing the track list and the sequencing, it's important to make sure that there's some strong concepts on there and that it matters and it says something... that it sticks with people.

It's important to push yourself to get better at your craft - whatever that is. It's important to grow and evolve with each project.

I think the special stuff [music] still finds a way to be heard, as long as you pair it with a good release strategy.

I stuck with my education, you know, I really did that for my grandma. It meant a lot to her that I finished school and in the grand scheme of things it was her who had saved and helped provide for me this opportunity to go to school.