Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music.

I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

The way young people are joining communities online, and agreeing and separating themselves and creating their own facts about things like vaccination, is worrying.

I'm a citizen of the U.S.A but I also travel around the world and love other countries like the UK as if it was my own. I love your tolerance and preservation of the arts.

The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.

Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one.

What Autotune allows is for people like myself and Kanye West not to depend on the singer. Back in the Fifties, the songwriter was rendered invisible. Now the songwriter is there in the forefront.