I started adapting, and that's how I've been able to stay afloat all these years. It's important to be adaptable.
We're expressing ourselves through references to anime and things like that, but SoundCloud music is just music that happens to be on SoundCloud.
Carol City has its hot moments, and it has its cool moments. If you were from one area of Carol City, people didn't mess with you.
With 'Clout Cobain,' when I made the song, I knew what I wanted to say. But I was gonna say it in a way where people could understand it.
When I was just straight-up rapping, I feel like everyone wasn't paying attention as much, but the moment I started singing - case in point, 'Clout Cobain' - it affected more people.
I'm so extroverted. I wanna learn how to be introverted, though.
I fear God. If my time comes, my time comes.
I grew up, like - since I had a lot of brothers, I grew up listening to Hot Boys, Goodie Mob, OutKast, basically all the southern albums, like Silkk the Shocker, Master P, Soulja Slim, and then it just elevated on when I started getting into music and I started listening to Nas and Jay Z and stuff like that and Lupe Fiasco and whatnot.
If it's not Fiji water, we don't want it.
My parents were really into music. They would play the Funkadelics, Parliament, OutKast; they would just play that all around the house. They'd also play Isaac Hayes, Marvin Gaye, James Brown.
Raider Klan was crazy because we all had our own personalities and our own little worlds when it came down to this music. It was the first step to creating your own weird little universe.
The reason I like Sagittarius is because they're like an Aquarius in a fire sign.
Everybody wants freedom. You don't want to be shackled, especially as an artist. Nobody wants to be shackled, at the end of the day.
I remember when 'Nostalgic 64' first dropped, and it became popular, Shady wanted to sign me at one point.
I listen to Robb Bank$, not only because he is a South Florida native, but that's my homeboy. I listen to him frequently.
I listen to most South Florida rappers.
I'm sponsored by Nike and stuff.
There's such a thing as good stress and bad stress. Bad stress is when somebody else stresses you out, and good stress is when you stress yourself out over something you want to accomplish, which makes you want to perfect it.
I'm a veteran at this point; I ain't no up-and-coming rapper. Up-and-coming been happened.
