I was never just a 'fill in 16 bars on a beat' rapper. I was making real songs from the jump.

When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me, it was escape and it showed me a different way of life.

If you're an artist who's built on marketing and hype then most likely I won't listen to you.

I'm gonna make music, and I'm gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That's really all I'm trying to do. I think that artists and pop culture identities are used to simplify what it means to be a human and pigeon-hole people into looking up to one role model.

If you didn’t make mistakes you wouldn't get far.

I think that with the Internet, it has given a lot of people the opportunity to get themselves out there to the masses. But it's easy to group everyone that's on the Internet together. I try to cross and jump around between genres and different styles, kind of find my own niche.

They're gonna try to tell you no, shatter all your dreams. But you gotta get up and go and think of better things.