I wanted to make an album that plays from the top to bottom and feels together and complete. That's just something that felt important.
I wanna put numbers on the board. And the thing that everybody doesn't get is that it just doesn't happen. It doesn't just fall out of the air and land on your lap; the only way to get it is to get it and put the work in.
It was inspiring to see local legends like E-40 and Keak da Sneak break out with 'Tell Me When to Go.'
You don't need mainstream media outlets, the big TV looks, or the magazine covers.
'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
Anything back in New Orleans is definitely nostalgic. I really played my first shows of my life and learned to perform here. I learned how to work a stage and how to connect with a crowd. It all started here.
Sometimes you wake up the next morning after making a lot of bad decisions and have this nonchalant reaction like, 'These Things Happen' - what can I say?
I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
I've been in love with music since I was old enough to establish my taste.
I know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are there for you, and how good that feels, but as an opener, you just have to train yourself to think that it's going to be harder.
I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have fans that cared about my music. At the same time, I really feel like an ordinary guy; I have been an ordinary guy forever.
Chance The Rapper makes some of the greatest music out, and he build his brand up organically, and the fans have reacted to it.
I've always been an outsider to some extent.
That raw connection between the two performers is something you can't fully plan. You just go with it and get lost in that moment and feed off of each other.
I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal.
My music is very reminiscent of the sound I grew up on and the place where that happened. It's a combination of everything I'm inspired by.
When I sample something, it's just me drawing from what I'm actually into. It's whatever sounds like a good track.
My whole career has been from scratch, so I never took it for granted that people care and support what I do.
My mom was a single parent.