You can't really choose what influences you. You can't choose what sparks something inside you.
I learn things myself. I call it YouTube University; YouTube has taught me more than anything. I learned how to tie a tie, all my pick-up lines come from YouTube reruns of 'Fresh Prince.'
I listened to gospel music because that was just our culture, you know? My parents are pastors.
From a shallow standpoint, I like nice things.
When I don't know all the rules, I just break them all. And it becomes like a higher level of music because of that.
There's something special about the influence a woman has on me.
Every time I have a conversation with a woman, I gleam something from it.
Women who care about your health is such a cool thing. Your homies won't remind you to not eat gluten.
I started playing sax when I was fourteen because I'm like a real competitive person when it comes to winning girls attention. And there was this girl that I really wanted the attention of and I found out she really liked jazz.
I don't want to create music or do a partnership because of the money. I don't want to be money-influenced.
There's not a lot of thinking in my music. I freestyle a lot of things and organize it later, and then it becomes a song.
I started on the drums when I was eight.
I remember I was a freshman in high school the first time I heard OutKast.
With 'Pink Polo,' I wanted something I could listen to when I was doing different activities during the summer and also bring a message in it.
Something I do naturally is I just involve women in my professional work. I hire them, I pay them, I put them in the workplace I'm involved in.
I feel like anything with my music can be traced back to a woman.
Full circle: 2014 I go from playing on the street to getting invited to play on stage, now 2016 I'm headlining.
When I was about 15 years old, I used to have a lot of jam sessions at my house. And all the kids would kind of come over, and I would kind of deejay some music that I discovered that month.
My father's from Jamaica.
My mother had this huge binder of CDs from everyone she loved, like progressive gospel artists. You know, she loved like how Yolanda Adams was kind of R&B, but it was, like, still gospel.
