All I have to do is to do my thing. I don't have to talk about it like, 'Oh, I'm representing for Asians.' I'm just... doing it.
I'm definitely trying to make longer songs, but if it's short and good, I'm not going to do anything about it.
My dad is constantly looking up my name on Twitter, every single day. He made a Twitter account just for that.
When my family got Internet installed at my house, me and my siblings went crazy and would take turns browsing. I'm homeschooled, too, so I would be on the computer every day. It was so exciting to finally get Internet at my house.
It got to the point where I would wake up at 6 A.M. and go on my phone and tweet something and have it be really good and get lots of retweets... and then I would wake up, because it was actually a dream; I would wake up with my hand holding nothing - an air phone.
There are good things about Indonesia, but there are bad things about it that I hope can be fixed.
It's important for kids to see someone who looks like them carving his own path. I definitely acknowledge that, and I think it's super great.
I have this friend who does comedy but also music, and I really enjoyed his stuff, and I wanted to do that.
I started home-schooling when I was in elementary school because my parents were really busy back then. They didn't have time to drive me there, and we didn't have a school bus or whatever.
I was, like, 12 or 13; the first hip hop song I tried to rapping to was Macklemore's 'Thrift Shop,' and my English was so bad, but learning to rap to different songs really helped me with my pronunciation, and looking at the lyrics on Rap Genius and stuff like that.
I don't want to be just seen as a character, because that can get exhausting after a while.
I take my music very serious. I don't call myself a comedian.
I'm definitely not making fun of hip-hop.
For songs to be big, I don't think there's a certain formula to it.
I don't want to be boxed in or looked at a certain way, as in, 'Yo, he's an Asian rapper.'
When I say 'homeschooled,' I was homeschooled for, like, two years, and then we just stopped. It was me and my parents, and they'd give me homework and stuff like that, but then one day, they just stopped.
I learned how to make videos, I learned how to make music, I learned English from the Internet. It's such a great platform, too, to release your stuff.
Academic studies in general is not something that I'm very good at.
I've known about hip-hop for a long time. The first time it intrigued me was when I saw this music video by Tyga on television. I was intrigued by the whole aesthetic. It was very unique.
My main goal was to be a cinematographer. I was making short films, and the plan was to keep uploading them on Twitter and build a fanbase there. One day, I just started making music for fun. When I made 'Dat $tick,' it blew up, and I saw the potential in that.
