Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

No matter how much good things are going on around you, you still have them little negative things that just wanna come out in front. But you bottle them in because you have so many other great things, but they still there.

The message I'm sending to myself - I can't change the world until I change myself first.

I really focus on what my fans will take from it, people living their day-to-day lives. At the end of the day, the music isn't for me; it's for people who are going through their struggles and want to relate to someone who feels the same way they do. I've got to go all-in, expressing myself, right there in the moment.

It's easy to forget who you are.

I want you to recognize that I'm a proud monkey...

Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem.