Kendrick Lamar is 10-times the rapper I am, but I just feel I'm the best at getting my own point across.
I have no history with 4chan.
I'm not some patriot. I didn't have some yearning to defend my country or anything. I was poor.
I've been watching anime for a minute, so I know like real weird deep anime that people probably don't care about.
Either people cling to the past and refuse to advance their ways, or they're always looking to future and not appreciating what's in front of them right now.
Black people are not a monolith. Black people have different thoughts. And sometimes people just need to hear the harsh truth - even myself. But you can't manufacture a hard truth and place it on somebody. When Kanye says slavery was a choice, that's not a harsh truth.
I started producing when I was listening to The Diplomats. The first time I heard Cam'ron was 'Dead or Alive.'
If Kanye was not in the equation, I literally wouldn't even be here. His music pushed hip-hop - the man is a master at taking a complex idea and presenting it in a way that is accessible for everyone.
Everyone has a little niche in rap, and I just wanted to carve a piece out of it for myself.
I saw Fear perform live at a young age, so I guess you could say I draw from that same energy.
I want to work with Danny Brown but also Cannibal Corpse and Maroon 5.
I don't rely on the strength of my image.
We need true free thinkers, people who really say what they feel and have good, genuine intentions.
In my opinion, the most dangerous thing an artist can do in this day and age is not embrace the present.
I'm aware that if I make a country album and release it, and it gets on the Grammys, the Grammys are going to put it in the Urban category. Just my blackness automatically sets it in there.
Liberals allow right-wingers on their platforms to have a 'civilized discussion,' but there's no reasoning with racists. I don't want them to have a platform that humanizes them. I want to talk down to them and meet them exactly where they are, with absolutely no respect.
I don't think any other place puts out music with no promise of success and still works like Baltimore.
People in rock had this idea that rappers aren't talented. In my opinion we're better writers, we think deeper, and our concepts are harder - Rap evolves faster than any other genre.
The idea of me being an icon or something is a very funny thing, just because of my own weird insecurities. But, yeah... probably because I toiled away being nothing for so long.
I just wanted to write about music if I wasn't going to make it.
