Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.
I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it.
I don't know if most people know it or not, but I produce, like, 95% of my own stuff.
My whole career has been from scratch, so I never took it for granted that people care and support what I do.
I've gone on in front of a crowd of 10 people and 7,000 people.
I know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are there for you, and how good that feels, but as an opener, you just have to train yourself to think that it's going to be harder.
What inspires me is the desire to be on. The desire to be successful. The desire to reach people through my music and make a living off it and never have to do anything else. Being able to do music full time and travel the world and share this music with everybody. That's the dream.
I dunno, there were always people believing in me, but you just gotta be confident in whatever you wanna do.
I didnt grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, Ive never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
When you're choosing the track list and the sequencing, it's important to make sure that there's some strong concepts on there and that it matters and it says something... that it sticks with people.