Not to sound egotistic, but I've gotten kind of good at it. It's something that came naturally to me, but my rapping is rooted in my writing..

I'm a lot different in my career since that interview. To have someone like Diplo tweet "Cakes' album is really cool" is cool, but in the same breath….

Coming into this, making music, I knew that was something that was going to be held over my head. Okay we get it, you're openly gay, but do you know ….

I don't think it was much of a forum for positive or negative feedback; it was mainly, "How can I make somebody laugh?" It wasn't a serious thing whe….

Now I'm in the business and I do have to have these awkward conversations about how I look, how I talk. But I'm still here..

Living New York, everyone has a million hustles, so I was doing party promoting, working the doors at parties, doing that whole nightlife thing..

There are two singles I did with Noah Breakfast, ["Talkin Greezy" and "New Phone (Who Dis),"] which was a cool experience. So it's cool either way, I….

I don't think it's completely better. I still have to do annoying things sometimes and explain things that I don't feel I have to [about LGBT]..

Sometimes I start with the beat. Sometimes I can write something down and it takes me a while to figure out how I want to say it or the beat I want t….

I don't know [whether] if I didn't get paid, or my career didn't keep going where it goes, if I would keep doing music..

I think it's very important that LGBT narratives are spoken from LGBT perspectives. I think that what I do is important as far as creating a lane for….

Every time someone asks me who I want to work with, my answer is always the same: whoever wants to work with me that won't want to get their ego stro….

I was doing my music because it was fun, and I always was like, "If it becomes a business, or it becomes too demanding, or if people try to tell me w….

I didn't choose to be a rapper; it's just my talent..

I think when I dropped The Eulogy is when it became more [about] feedback because that's when Pitchfork wanted to review it and things like that..

It may look like things have gotten better, because everyone is semi-being appreciative. Not appreciative, but conscious of people being gender fluid….

I think each track tells a different story about what I'm going through. But overall it's just me being young, my love of alcohol, and my love of tur….

I do realize that I have a talent for making music. It wasn't anything expected, but I do think it's deserved, if that makes sense..

For you to be able to rap fast and fit many words into a bar, that's what rap is about, the showmanship. That's the thing we're kind of losing now. I….

I was just doing it for fun. I was in college recording music as a joke, so I really didn't think that a career was feasible - being able to travel..

I've been working with Peaches for a while as far as doing shows, maybe for the past two years. Everyone else seems to think that this is a new relat….