Underground hip-hop is, like, one of my foundations, I would say a cornerstone of my foundation of my musical tastes.
What is missing in a lot of urban music is perspective. You hear a lot of regurgitated perspective. It's a lot of: out at the club. Had drinks. Patrón. Big booties. It's this regurgitated idea of living in this, I don't know, one-night-stand moment that always starts at the club and Patrón. And so perspective, perspective, perspective is what I'm an advocate of.
I've always had this tremendous and very deep feeling of knowing my purpose, you know? It never dawned on me, it always very much known.
I'm a firm believer that when children have a strong conviction about something, it's often because there's some powerful experience from a past life. Something that they didn't get to fulfill.
I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.
I don't think I live the lifestyle that's expected of a quote unquote R&B artist. I'm just not that dude.
When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do?
I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.
I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.
I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.
I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself.
Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.
'SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet.
That is why every brother and sister will react differently according to how they learn to defend themselves and adapt to different circumstances. When our parents are constantly fighting, when there is disharmony, disrespect, and lies, we learn the emotional way of being like them.
