I started playing the drums at five years old and used to listen to a lot of screamo bands like Asking Alexandria, Dream Theater, and Attack Attack!
Me and my family used to have a Christian covers band together... like rock Christian music, upbeat, all in Indonesian. The band was called Roasted Peanuts.
I used to play the drums when I was, like, 5 through 10.
I remember in Indonesia, there was this actor in a film that got pretty big internationally, and he went to Hollywood. Seeing an Indonesian guy doing that when I was 13 or 14, it really motivated me.
I started making raps in 2014, recording stuff from my iPhone and putting them together in Sony Vegas, which is a video editing program.
'Dat $tick' was the first song I tried to be serious on. Then I thought, Wow, what if I really did this seriously? How dope would that be?'
Hip hop helped me learn about a whole bunch of American culture.
Every time I get the chance, I just talk to myself basically in English just to practice my pronunciation.
I say funny stuff in my songs sometimes, but it's still all in the seriousness of the music and the craft.
I always liked to draw, and when I was a kid, the Internet wasn't big at all, so I would go to Internet cafes and search Google images for cartoon characters and save it to my USB drive.
Learning how to rap actually improved my English, because it forced me to talk fast, and I used to suck at that.
I grew up in West Jakarta, in a middle-to-low-class neighbourhood.
I have very little thoughts on Lil Xan. I think his music is very unique.
One day, I was just thinking about something, and then - you know when you think, and you have that inner voice in your head? I realized it was in English.
I didn't want to be one of those people that does something that blows up and keeps doing it for way too long.
I feel like, with an album, that's how you get to know an artist.
I would also love to get into acting. I love being in front of the camera.
When I found out my parents wanted to homeschool me, I was so bummed out. I missed all my friends. But now I realise that if I wasn't homeschooled, I'd be the lamest kid ever - I wouldn't have been able to speak English, for a start.
I wouldn't really call myself a spokesman for anything. All I wanna do is inspire young people everywhere - not just Indonesia.
My influences are a wide variety: from Dave Chappelle stand-up comedy specials on YouTube, to watching chick-flick comedy movies, to scrolling through stuff people say on the Internet.
