I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around.

In a sense, touring is crazy. You go city to city playing the show over and over again. But there's something magic about being in front of people, so it's not like going through the motions every night. It's a different experience.

I don't come to Toronto often, so when I'm there it's always special and rare which I think makes it very exciting for my fans.

I dunno, there were always people believing in me, but you just gotta be confident in whatever you wanna do.

Sometimes when you meet stars, on one hand you're like, "You're who I'm inspired by, you're who I look up to." On the other hand you're like, "I wanna be in the same kind of shoes that you're in." That's how I've always seen myself. Some of me is star-struck, some of me feels like I'm looking at a peer. They're another person who sees the world the same way I do, who already did it. It's inspiring.

Nothing tops making a living off your passion.

Thing is, I wasn't in the library, didn't study too much, didn't get the best grades, but honestly, I didn't party a lot either. I stayed in a lot.