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I'm really not a materialistic person.
I like lyrical rappers and turn up rappers.
My sister sings, and my brother plays the keyboard.
I used to play the drums when I was, like, 5 through 10.
I take my music very serious. I don't call myself a comedian.
I feel like kids naturally love guns, so I was drawn to that.
Hip hop helped me learn about a whole bunch of American culture.
I grew up in West Jakarta, in a middle-to-low-class neighbourhood.
Academic studies in general is not something that I'm very good at.
My dad put me onto Phil Collins and Dream Theater and all that stuff.
I very rarely shop. The only money I spend is on, like, Uber and food.
In my opinion, an album has a story from start to finish and has a concrete concept.
Indonesian people don't get satire; that's the thing. There's no thought in our humor.
It's pretty hard as an Asian rapper to not be put in a box. I do my best to avoid that.
Things can go away just like that. You got to be always respectful and nice and positive.
I don't want to be boxed in or looked at a certain way, as in, 'Yo, he's an Asian rapper.'
I don't want to be just seen as a character, because that can get exhausting after a while.
I just say 'Amen' a lot. It's just about being grateful and never taking things for granted.
Being home-schooled, you really get to explore your hobbies, what you want to do for a living.
There are good things about Indonesia, but there are bad things about it that I hope can be fixed.
I've always felt like I could express myself better in English just because the way the grammar works.
It doesn't really bother me if people misunderstand me. It's cool, but you can't do anything about it.
I'm really about seeing people and art for what they are. Like, seeing people as humans and seeing art.
I say funny stuff in my songs sometimes, but it's still all in the seriousness of the music and the craft.
My dad is constantly looking up my name on Twitter, every single day. He made a Twitter account just for that.
I didn't want to be one of those people that does something that blows up and keeps doing it for way too long.
Learning how to rap actually improved my English, because it forced me to talk fast, and I used to suck at that.
I say funny stuff in my lyrics to make people laugh, but it's all in the seriousness of the music. I'm just being witty.
When you listen deeply to a song, you find all the little sounds they use and subconsciously learn how to produce and mix.
I wouldn't really call myself a spokesman for anything. All I wanna do is inspire young people everywhere - not just Indonesia.
All I have to do is to do my thing. I don't have to talk about it like, 'Oh, I'm representing for Asians.' I'm just... doing it.
I started making raps in 2014, recording stuff from my iPhone and putting them together in Sony Vegas, which is a video editing program.
'Dat $tick' was the first song I tried to be serious on. Then I thought, Wow, what if I really did this seriously? How dope would that be?'
I went through a clubbing phase - then, I dunno, dude. The club scene in Jakarta sucks. It's rich kids and kids who are trying to look rich.
I stopped playing the drums when I was ten, and I picked up Rubik's Cubes. I was doing that for a while, and then I got into cinematography.
It's important for kids to see someone who looks like them carving his own path. I definitely acknowledge that, and I think it's super great.
Some fan literally broke into my house. He literally came in and said, 'I'm a huge fan. I brought you food.' He brought me three boxes of noodles.
I started playing the drums at five years old and used to listen to a lot of screamo bands like Asking Alexandria, Dream Theater, and Attack Attack!
I learned how to make videos, I learned how to make music, I learned English from the Internet. It's such a great platform, too, to release your stuff.
I made a Twitter account when I was 10 years old. I wasn't even trying to be funny. I was still tweeting in Indonesian. I didn't really speak English yet.
One thing about Indonesians is that a lot of them, even if they don't understand English, have absolutely no problem memorizing English songs. Even my dad.
One day, I was just thinking about something, and then - you know when you think, and you have that inner voice in your head? I realized it was in English.
Me and my family used to have a Christian covers band together... like rock Christian music, upbeat, all in Indonesian. The band was called Roasted Peanuts.
Honestly, I'm not a big activism or politic guy. I wouldn't say I'm super educated in that stuff, and I feel like I shouldn't speak on things that I don't understand too much.
My influences are a wide variety: from Dave Chappelle stand-up comedy specials on YouTube, to watching chick-flick comedy movies, to scrolling through stuff people say on the Internet.
I always liked to draw, and when I was a kid, the Internet wasn't big at all, so I would go to Internet cafes and search Google images for cartoon characters and save it to my USB drive.
I've known about hip-hop for a long time. The first time it intrigued me was when I saw this music video by Tyga on television. I was intrigued by the whole aesthetic. It was very unique.
It took me a while to figure out the U.S. sense of humor, a lot of trial and error. I would write down jokes to casually tell my American friend over Skype to see which ones he'd laugh at.
I started home-schooling when I was in elementary school because my parents were really busy back then. They didn't have time to drive me there, and we didn't have a school bus or whatever.
I remember in Indonesia, there was this actor in a film that got pretty big internationally, and he went to Hollywood. Seeing an Indonesian guy doing that when I was 13 or 14, it really motivated me.