00:00I've always tried to make music that transcends, you know, gender, nationality, to try and
00:07unify people.
00:31I'm a very honest person.
00:32I can't write fiction, you know.
00:35I can't really do these sort of themed story songs that are just a story about someone
00:45else that I either made up or don't.
00:48It all has to directly do with me or else I can't make the music.
01:00My father is a huge inspiration for me.
01:19I mean, I can never, like, even my mother will tell you, I would never be doing what
01:23I'm doing and probably in the fashion that I'm doing it without my mother's teaching
01:28of the English language and words and my dad's natural gift for, like, melody and music.
01:58Really, all I care about is the words, you know, the words in these people, that's it.
02:19In hip-hop, things have been said so many times that the only way you're going to say
02:24it new is if you say it honest and genuine, you know, because nobody can say it how you
02:29can say it if you're honest with yourself.
02:32But if you start trying to just say it to say it, you're going to say it like somebody else.
03:24Fame me later was just a point in my life where I felt like I needed to, like, prove
03:33to everybody, like, okay, yo, people accept me, look, look, I could get, I could do songs
03:38with this person.
04:29It was unexpected, I recorded it in a hotel room in London.
04:45I don't know if there's a song on this album that I can say, like, oh, well, I did that
04:49for that reason.
04:50No, it's all just, like, I did it because I would want to listen to something like that
04:53and I'm really proud of it.
05:23I've always just felt like an outsider naturally, you know, and I think that just has to do
05:45with, like, the better you do at music, the more you're going to feel like an outsider.
05:50It doesn't matter.
05:51I could be from Australia, you know, I could be from anywhere.
05:53It's just when you start doing well, people will make you feel like an outsider.
06:20Right foot up, left foot slide, left foot up, right foot slide.
06:44Right foot up, left foot slide, left foot up, right foot up.
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