The hardest thing for - not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.
I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that's what I'm going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.
I think that's why I put my energy into making music. That's how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.
Black and brown pride have been taught in my household for a long time.
Whenever I make music, it reflects where I'm at mentally.
The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist.
At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.
I think my vice would be outdoing myself.
I'm constantly thinking.
I don't vote. I don't do no voting.
When everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits - you know, like we just don't give a damn.
Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It's really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.
I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.
We're all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.
Sonnymoon and Quadrants are a couple of bands that really inspire me in terms of the melodics of things and certain tones and just what feels good. It takes me back to the type of music that I grew up on in my household. We played a lot of gangsta rap, but we also played a lot of oldies, and I think that mix is part of what inspires my sound.
Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.
I used to consider the listener. But now I'm in a space where, if I'm not inspired, I can't really do the music. I can't feel it.
I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.
People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can't knock it.
I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.
