I guess a lot of times pressure is put on something after it becomes big.

The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.

Well, I like songs that have like a little bit of quirkiness to them.

I was the front man of the choir and then when I was 12 and I was the leadsinger of my highschool groups.

Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.

Mass incarceration is a policy that's kind of built up over the last four decades and it's destroyed families and communities, and something we need to change. And it's fallen disproportionally on black and brown communities, especially black communities, and it's kind of a manifestation of structural racism.

The biggest weapon is to stay peaceful