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I don't like to rush my music.
Meeting Kanye West was a blessing.
My grandfather is a blues musician.
Before 'Panda,' I had a buzz already.
Even the diss tracks was enhancing 'Panda.'
You'd be surprised what you'd catch on my playlist.
I played the sax at school. I was in marching band.
Choirs, auditions, talent shows, I was doing it all.
Music always lived with me, like a family tradition.
The biggest challenge for me is just knowing how to calm down.
My sister listened to reggae, and my homies listened to trap music.
I love to, you know, just inspire people however they wanna take it.
I never had a job. I never saw myself working for corporate business.
I'm real connected with Australia, you heard? I gotta come up there, man.
My job was to entertain. I've always seen myself in the entertainment realm.
I want to do a big donation to the pandas for all the panda lovers out there.
None of my dudes I chill with are rappers. I don't put us as rappers. We're all artists.
I came from a supportive home with a mommy and a daddy, and they had everything I wanted.
'XXL,' they call me a freshman, but I'm a pro. So, this a platform to let people know I'm out here.
I'm here to actually deliver art and deliver the creation, you know, wherever the music brings somebody.
You can catch me in whatever's funky, whatever's got that swag. If it's got that swag, I'm putting it on.
In the G.O.O.D. Music camp, we all come around, and we show ourselves and present ourselves as artists only.
Everybody in my family sings. We were either in a choir, or there was something going on at home where we were singing.
The work ethic behind everything Kanye does is crazy. It's greatness. He told me, 'We're not just rappers, we're artists.'
The minute they gave me number one, I went to the studio. I was ready to give y'all something else. I was going 120 miles an hour.
Me and Kanye work awesome together. He's a creative man, I'm a creative man, we put our ideas together, it's like the perfect formula.
I got to be more careful and more focused with my surroundings, because everybody wants to reach out to me, and I don't know if it's good or bad.
I went from selling everything to saying, 'I ain't gonna sell that. Can't do it.' It wasn't working for me, so I was just like, 'Yo, I'm going to sell my talent.'
Big ups to him, big ups to Future. I actually like Future's music. I like his music, you feel me. I'm not a hater or a critic on him, you know, I do me. God bless him, God bless me.
When people are like, 'Why are these white people walking around this black hood?' I'm like, 'Why aren't they?' If it ain't bothering nobody, they can do whatever they want! They're in the hood to make it better.
I came from the projects. So there were times I'd wake up at night, and my palms would be itching to get out. But no matter where I was, I always looked at the stars, because there's nothing ugly about the sky. That was my escape.
Actually, if you listen to the vocals on my grandfather's records, you will hear we sound similar. We both sound kind of dry. We have a dry voice, and we both love harmony - he was a man of harmony, I'm a man of harmony. I think it just runs in our blood.
At school, I'd be the dude singing to the girls, always up in the auditorium, in the lunch room singing Christmas carols, in the halls between class. I was always singing, and same thing with my grandfather. The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree; you know how that goes.