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I See That Happening With Hip Hop Purists Now. Where You Have An Artist Like A Kendrick [lamar] Or A Drake, Who Are Really Trying Different Things Emotionally, Different Things Musically, And On A Mainstream Level. And You Have Underground Hip Hop Fans Dissing It, For The Simple Fact That It's Mainstream - Not Because What They're Doing Is Whack, Or What They're Doing Is Not Sincere.

It Doesn't Get Any More Underground, Conscious Or Indie Than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, But Because They Got A Couple Of Really Big Pop Hits, Actually Some Of The Biggest Pop Hits That Hip-hop Has Ever Seen, People Are Missing That Part Of Their Story. People Are Not Counting That Blessing.

I Think Its Man's Nature To Go To War And Fight.

I Like The Fact That I Can Rep New York, But My Style Does Not - I'm Not Trapped In A New York Thing. I Can Do Art Songs With Other Artists And It's Seamless.

My Parents Are My Biggest Influences. My Parents And My City. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, The Community I Grew Up. I Don't Feel Like I'm Special In That. I Feel Like That's Everybody.