I just want to work with the big people and the people who make great music.
I don't have a problem with anybody in Toronto.
I dropped out of school; I got fired from my job. Those were my roughest moments, but I always knew through it that I was going to be great.
There's no album in 2016 that's better than my album.
Everything that comes out of Canada musically, I support. I support Toronto 100% because I'm on the side of the music.
I started rapping because my mom died when I was about 11 years old, and I was a very rebellious kid. I've been kicked out of every school I've ever been in since 6th grade on, expelled and dropped out in the 11th grade. Music was the only thing that I could really use to express myself, so I started rapping.
I'm a very cultural person, and Canada is a very cultural place.
Me personally, I don't think I'm even hot enough to be getting dissed.
Reggae goes in and out. It sounds so good, it feels so good and feels so tropical, but the problem is not everybody is Caribbean. Not everyone is going to sound authentic doing it, and sometimes it comes off cheesy when other people do it.
My favourite singers are people like R. Kelly and people like that.
My outlook was, 'You're not my moms; you can't tell me what to do.' I got expelled from about 20 schools.
To be selling out shows and these kids who don't speak English singing along every word? It's wild.
I underestimated the power of 'Diego.'
What, do you think I'm here to be second place, brother?
One of my favorite reggae songs is Wayne Wonder's 'No Letting Go.' And Sizzla 'Give Me A Try.' That's one of my favorite songs as well.
We just want to be No. 1. Is there a problem with that? Can I be the best? Can y'all watch me be great? Will y'all allow me to do that?
I can look at you and say, 'I'm gonna be the biggest artist in the world' because, at the end of the day, it's about the trust I have in God. He's already shown me that I'm gonna fulfil my destiny.
People who couldn't walk, they'd come in wheelchairs, and he'd make them walk. It's just the power of God. It wasn't my dad; it's what God had instructed my dad to do.
I still direct my own videos.
I'm like one of those dudes who organically have talent.
