I don't come to Toronto often, so when I'm there it's always special and rare which I think makes it very exciting for my fans.
I stuck with my education, you know, I really did that for my grandma. It meant a lot to her that I finished school and in the grand scheme of things it was her who had saved and helped provide for me this opportunity to go to school.
Toronto is amazing, it's one of my favourite cities to visit. Toronto and Montreal are just super dope places.
It's a really good time for California right now in music.
If you think about rap and how it has become so much easier to record music and release it, and you think about everyone in the world being a 'rapper' these days, it's so much easier. But it's still as hard as ever to break through and truly be successful in this industry.
When you put a tour together you really just think about who you'd like on your bill, who would make sense and who you would want to live with basically for a couple months and be around with and work with.
In a sense, touring is crazy. You go city to city playing the show over and over again. But there's something magic about being in front of people, so it's not like going through the motions every night. It's a different experience.
I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.
I think the special stuff [music] still finds a way to be heard, as long as you pair it with a good release strategy.
There's a crazy energy in Toronto. I think some of that may be from being a border from where I'm from and being so close.
I'm on this raised-platform-stage and I'm put on display, but at the same time I'm just a human. I'm just a regular person at the end of the day and, you know, I just want them to know that I do appreciate every single one of them.
Music meant more to me than a social life and just hangin out. haha just being tired of repacking my suit case every couple of days, and anytime i wanted to cop some new clothes i would have to throw away something I had to make room in the suitcase.
