It's hard enough to get things to work in a musical way.

I love getting out there and traveling and doing shows and all of that. But when I can be home, it's a special time.

Something that distinguishes my solo work from normal rap production is that it has a lot of melody - it's not just cutting up a song and having someone rap over it.

That's something I've always been down with: creative commons and people being able to license their music and allow other people to reuse it and recycle it.

My music should fall under fair use because it's transformative, it's becoming its own entity, and it's not negatively impacting anyone's sales.

The goal for me is, I build the record that I put out as one individual song. Even though it's broken up into tracks, to me it's like one hour-long piece of music. In assembling the whole thing, I'm really thinking, okay, it's gonna end here, it's gonna start here, and I kind of have the idea of the journey.

I wanted to make experimental music out of pop.