I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

Anyone can relate to struggle, whether you're European or Asian. Anyone can relate to having to get up and go to work and eat.

You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.

Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.

Skateboarding is a part of Hip-Hop culture. I think it's the fifth element of Hip-Hop - emceeing, deejaying, b-boying, graffiti, and skateboarding. Skateboarders live and die on the streets. It's expression - it's everything that Hip-Hop is.

You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid.

Yeah, I have animosity, a chip on my shoulder. But I love, too.