The weird thing about rap is that you don't get compared in the same way that athletes do, even though it's probably the most competitive sport in music. In basketball, they look at a player and say: 'This guy was the best in his prime at this sport.' But in rap it's not until you're dead or retired that people think about it like that.
I'm still a very frugal person. But everything that does get spent is a reinvestment into my own music.
I feel like, at a certain point in life, I'd like to be the type of man that gets married and has more serious relationships.
I've never met Eminem; you don't meet Eminem. He has his own secret service.
I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just that. People wanna romanticize it and say, 'There's two sides to it, and it's a beautiful love/hate story of violence and music.' But it's really just a very scummy place where people don't have respect for other people's lives.
I feel like LeBron James is an amazing basketball player, but he's also a community person.
If you can give away free music, you can give away free electricity, free water. Those tiny jabs at a larger infrastructure are what make revolutions.
When I write, I work off of a theme, an emotion, a narrative - thinking of it and then expounding on it.
I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it's weird.
I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been something I was saying for a long time.
There's always been a quiet conversation and joke that if you're not hard, if you're not from impoverished neighborhoods, if you're not certain constructs of a black stereotype, then you not black.
It wasn't until I left that I realised it's not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of 27 or 28, for all of your friends to still be alive. I can think of a lot of kids that I knew in Chicago who were supposed to grow up but didn't.
Being in the space that I am as a writer, and just as a black dude in America, there's this push to be cool or be what you're expected to be. There's a need for a song that puts that in perspective. I think that's an important thing for young children to hear growing up.
I want to be more involved outside just my community of Chicago.
People always tell me I'm the complete opposite of Chief Keef and act like I'm supposed to stop him from making his music. But I like Chief Keef, so it's always super awkward. I just make music I like.
I don't have to carry myself as anybody that I'm not, and people picked up on it.
Kanye took me from a kid who listened to music to a kid who lived music.
I think that's always the goal of art, is to make people ask themselves questions.
I think even before I knew I wanted to be a rapper, I wanted to be an entertainer. I was really into Michael Jackson as a kid.
The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books.
