Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

We sell our dreams and our potential to escape through that buzz.

I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.

I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at and told who to be or what to think when listening to an artist. However, I do want to be inspired. There's a fine line.

I'm as honest as I can be.

Thrift shopping is really just an extension of me being that same kid and going into a place that's completely unconventional that has really endless possibilities in terms of outfits that you can put together and really just expressing yourself.

If I was gay, I would think hip-hop hates me. Have you read the YouTube comments lately? 'Man, that's gay' gets dropped on the daily.