I have a vision for everything that I make, but... I'm not that considerate about what I do. I do whatever is in my head and how it ends up tends to be the thing that it's supposed to be. It was never a premeditated decision.

The idea of trying to predict what people will or won't respond to is risky.

Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through all of it from the time I bought my first record probably. It's always been there.

I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a way that's poetic and artistic.

I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down.

Life is short. I'm here to make music, I'm not here to sit on a beach. That sounds really boring to me.

I feel the reasons my songs might seem dark is because of how I viewed the situations I was in and it was just something I always felt like documenting.