When I watch films now, theres more of a musicality to the way the film are written.

One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.

It's not just a struggle for blacks to be accepted by whites, but the other way around as well. A lot of people don't see that.

For me with art and all that stuff - I like abstraction. I like contortion. I mean, it's still truth. But it's truth through the center of the individual. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's fallacies or falsehoods. It just happens to be one perception of what's happening.

When I watch films now, theres more of a musicality to the way the film are written.

Rap is not pop, if you call it that then stop...

I'm a cinephile. I love movies, I love film at every level. I'm a student of it. It informs me as does all art in my music, because there's stories, there's acts, there's moods, there's dynamics, there's moodiness, emotion. All of those things that play into a film. I think that could equally be said about music. It definitely informs me. Beats is stories.