You Can Have Your Own Opinion, But

As An Artist, I Have To Be A Leader Of My Fans, Not Like Follow Them. Because If I Chose To Follow Them, You Know, They Could Do It.

As Far As Being On A Major Label, Some Labels Get It And Get What They Have To Do, And Some Labels Don't. I Don't Think The Label I'm On Necessarily Gets It, But I Think Over Time They're Gonna Have To.

There Are Staples To My Show. I Have To Be Conscious About Switching Things Up Because I Know People Who Saw Me Last Year Will Say, 'he Did That Last Time.' But If Certain Things Work, They Work.

My Musical Influence Is Really From My Father. He Was A Dj In College. My Parents Met At New York University. So He Listened To, You Know, Motown, And He Listened To Bob Dylan. He Listened To Grateful Dead And Rolling Stones, But He Also Listened To Reggae Music. And He Collected Vinyl.

Unfortunately Hip-hop Is So Competitive That In Order For Fringe Groups To Get In, You Gotta Be Better Than Whoever's The Best. So Before Eminem, The Idea That There Would Be A White Rapper That Anybody Would Really Check For Was Fantastic Or Amazing Or Impossible.