I don't have a community like a black community to belong to [with] a musical platform that's been built for years and years and years, or the film-m….

Music that was made in the 60s and 70s did come from a really soulful place. The seed for the songs written in the 90s were planted in those songs, e….

Art is supposed to be about creativity. But the same people are the same art darlings every month, and it's a bit annoying. It's supposed to be diver….

I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control..

Whoever's inside is inside; whoever's out is out..

Culturally, I found myself in a very weird situation: you were the person that had made that journey to the West, and then you were going back to com….

The consequence of making it a business thing and making an artist the same as a Wall Street trader is that you do get a robot by the end of it. It b….

Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?.

Even if you're frustrated, how do you express yourself? There's no subculture like back in the day..

Besides, isn't it more exciting when you don't have permission?.

I find the new Justin Bieber video more violent and more of an assault to my eyes and senses than what I've made..

Confidence takes constant nurturing, like a bed, it must be remade every day..

Now, [hip-hop/grime artists] Stormzy, Skepta, or the Section Boyz have to be validated by Drake, Rihanna or Beyoncé. They're rolled into this one urb….

I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything..

Creativity needs time to harness before it goes out, and because that's difficult, memes have become the creative language..

That divide between the rich and poor is so crazy, because even white kids are suffering now..

Everyone has that moment where they just rebel..

That's what's inspiring to me - finding someplace where people haven't already seen themselves in a certain light..

I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world deconstruct it, and that was valued. Unfortunat….

I'm not sticking up for white kids - I'm going to have a barrage of hate mail - but it's true. If you're poor, you're really poor..

I feel like I'm living in the dead weeds of hip-hop. I live in the graveyard of what went wrong with hip-hop..