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I'm not Drake's sidekick.
Integrity is everything to me.
I treat my vocals as an instrument.
I'm huge on visuals. I love visuals.
I don't know how to interact with fans, man.
I'm glad I'm with OVO; it's a dream come true.
I think too much, which is a blessing and a curse.
I want to invest time in creating moments for myself.
When I'm home, I try to relax, but I still make music.
First time I met Drake was 2012 at a studio in Toronto.
My mother didn't listen to my first tape, or my second one.
I look into people's eyes and I know they think I'm a bad guy.
I know myself, I'm learning myself. I'm growing, I'm maturing.
I would never call myself mysterious. The word I use is 'private.'
I would call myself the Pharrell of OVO. There are no rules for me.
There's a difference wherever you go in Canada, Ontario and the GTA.
I was one of those guys who was, I guess, socially popular in school.
Halsey's so talented and her voice is so strong and it's so addicting.
I feel like my story could hopefully inspire others who've faced hard times.
I want to write just as much as Kanye may have for whomever Kanye has written for.
I openly share music with Drake, especially when it's time for him to have a project.
I competitively want to produce just as many records for Drake as Kanye West did for Jay Z.
I make 99 percent of my music sitting down, in boxers, when I'm comfortable in my computer chair.
The best advice Drake's given anybody is to know yourself. It's the most important thing to live by.
I know how to use computers. I was one of those guys on Myspace who had one of those fake hit counters.
Of course I want to be a superstar, but it doesn't happen overnight, and I see that from having a mentor.
I'm grateful that really pretty girls like my music, and social media just happens to like really pretty girls.
Everyone should know yourself. It can be an insult, but know yourself is just it. It's exactly what it sounds like.
I love music but I never went to a concert in my life. The first time I went to a concert I performed on a stage with Drake.
The difference between what people perceive and what's reality is that, like, I'm not actually shy. I'm just observant. I care a lot.
I was like, 'Okay, cool, I'ma learn how to produce my own beats,' and I stuck to it. Now, it's hard to even take a beat from anyone else.
You know what matters? Touching people. Being a real person. Because when you're in front of real people, they gon' give you a real reaction.
I think everyone has their roles, and in my opinion, I'm like the young hot boy of OVO: stubborn, very step-out-on-his-own and do-his-own-thing.
I'll flip samples where one's a completely dark song and the next one is a complete sexual song. People think my whole thing is a dark thing, but I don't.
I would like to say that OVO, me being on OVO, they kinda protect me from the industry, so I'm not around it. I'm not around it unless I choose to be, or unless I ask to be.
I thought, 'Write a hit, you'll be rich and happy.' Meet one of the most beautiful girls in the world, one of the most talented and I'll be happy. All of that: I'm not happy.
My first tape was 'Hey, I can do what y'all do.' It's new, flashy, and not through rap. It was a guy singing how cool he was. I'm here with big bro Drake; I'm his little gunner.
In the beginning it was definitely Drake, Kanye and Lil Wayne - those were my influences. But having worked with all those three individually, I'm now appreciating my own individuality.
There's room for everybody. It's like crabs in the bucket - no pun intended, shout-out to k-os - but there's a lot of room for different types of Canadian music, cadences and influences.
I'll make a whole bunch of beats whenever, but unless I'm living through something or have a female in mind, or have a conversation in my phone I could scroll through, I'm not making music.
I made my entire first tape using Beats headphones - the studio headphones and halfway through the second one, because I finally started making a home studio. But I record and make all my beats with the Beats headphones.
I take everything someone says and the way they say it to heart. I just notice everything. I'm very, like, I know what I want. I know what I want to do and what I don't want to do. It may seem like I'm care-free but I'm care-expensive.
I'll take a shot of vodka if I want it to be raspy... I tell whoever's in the studio to get boiling hot water, like super boiling, that they're afraid to give it to me. I put it exactly on the back of my tongue to shock my body. That cleans it up.
When I was younger I was influenced by Kanye, his story of coming up and how he kept producing and producing and saying, 'I'm more than just a producer. I'm more than just a writer. I'm more than just a guy in the studio here to give you ideas. I have a story.'
There should be more love in Toronto when it comes to the music and entertainment scenes instead of keeping that Screwface Capital name. There should be more artists eating together, more artists celebrating together and more artists making music together. That's how I feel.
I'm a recording artist, a performing artist and a producing artist. All those things have everything to do with the outcome of my shows. I get myself studying every part of the game and not everyone has the characteristic to do that. In my mind, you need all three to become an artist.
I'm going to make the music I make regardless and it's always going to be driven by rhythm and blues and hopefully it becomes popular. But I don't cater to, like, 'OK, I want to make music that's going to fit in this pop world or go on the charts, etcetera, etcetera.' Hopefully, enough people like it so it becomes popular.