I don't think I've ever been personally fulfilled performing. It's kind of a challenging thing; it's more of a sacrifice for the people that I love.
I live in a pretty liberal place, so it's a lot of hidden racism and things like that. If you really look up California, it's a really shitty place when it comes to things like that. So I think it will just take time. Old people have to die. Once the generation right under my Mom dies, we'll be fine.
Someone who only wants to play sold-out shows will find a tempo that works at the shows and then focus on making that kind of music, but maybe they'll miss out on other things because of it.
If your children don't fight, they won't love each other when they get older! It's a common thing.
Drugs are horrible; I say no to drugs. I've never done drugs in my life.
I've heard a lot of crack stories. I heard a RZA crack story, up close and personal, over a platter of 100 chicken wings that only him and his friend ate. It was a good day.
We have bad things happen, but it's not like Syria, which we ignore and pretend doesn't happen. We've got it pretty good, no matter who the president is, to be honest.
Rappers kinda look stupid sometimes. Most of the time. I'm pretty sure I look stupid too a lot.
I wake up sometimes with an idea and then I write it down. It's not necessarily easy, but when you focus on something it comes.
School doesn't really teach you how to interact with people properly, you learn that outside of school.
A lot of music comes from a selfish place.
My brothers used to beat me up, but I used to fight my sisters 'cuz I couldn't hit them back, so I had to find specific severe ways to punish them.
Radio is better than writing because they can't lie. Cause sometimes writers be straight lying, bro, and these headlines be making me mad.
Where I come from, there's no common enemy, there's no "why." There's no, "I hate white people."
The work is the understanding of the people that you're speaking for. The further you get away from that, the further you are from the work.
I don't care at all. I don't know the difference from one president to the next.
I feel like that's the reason a lot of pop music doesn't have that grasp that other forms of music do, because it's more rooted in only the happier aspects of life - there's not really a connection.
I just make what I'm making, and then one day I won't want to make it anymore. I think that's a luxury we should be able to have as people, especially as artists.
I hate when a show has an age limit. Like a little tiny child is standing outside, like, 'Hey, I wanted to go but I couldn't.' That sucks.
The ones that actually affect people who don't have enough money to change them - which is almost everybody. But that has nothing to do with the president.
I've had a lot of people online say they're going to kill me at my shows. A lot of people say they're going to punch me in the face - never happened. It's just people being sad because their life sucks.
Everybody deserves a right to be happy.
That's something that I've always gotten: a sense of humanity, a sense of awareness of yourself and the world around you.
When I was a kid I used to want to be a Beethoven or something. That was my dream.
I live in a pretty liberal place, so it's a lot of hidden racism and things like that. If you really look up California, it's a really shitty place when it comes to things like that.
