When you're younger, you get shoved a lot. You don't really have a say-so.

I love when rappers have a off-beat, very abstract timing, and he certainly did.And any rapper who really approaches rapping with the art form of songwriting melodically - I know a bunch of rappers who actually go in before they write the lyrics and come up with the melody. And you can hear and feel that difference so much when that's the case.

So much of your identity in junior high is built on who you're with. You see the world through the lens of how you identify and have been identified at that time.

We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.

The album ['A Seat at the Table'] really feels like storytelling for us all and our family and our lineage.

When you're younger, you get shoved a lot. You don't really have a say-so.

I don't really have guilty pleasures. Anything musically that I fully, fully believe, is good no matter who the artist is, no matter what the marketing is behind it, I stand pretty firm.