I'm not the dude with the message. I'm a human being with different sides, different shades and different emotions, different feelings.
Tell that boy Drake he don't want it with me in 'Fortnite.'
I grew up on Wu-Tang and Tribe and Nas, all the raw, very New York-driven music. Then when I got older - in my late teens, early twenties - and that's when I started to listen to Drake and J. Cole, and so it wasn't just East-coast.
I'm not Tupac or this prophetic dude or anything like that. I just want to make music and have fun.
I was a little nervous that people wouldn't take to 'Under Pressure,' because my style and what I embodied had previously been the braggadocious '90s fun rapper type. Before this album, I didn't rap about my life much.
I wake up every day, I deal with hundreds of thousands, or millions, of dollars. I fund my tours by myself. I do merch by myself. I employ people. I have my own successful company.
No I.D. executive-produced 'Under Pressure' and helped me find the Logic sound that's evolving every day.
Black folk who don't realize I'm mixed will treat me like I'm some racist person, or when white people find out I'm black, they treat me with racism, and I don't feel like I belong or fit in anywhere.
I grew up on Section 8 housing, food stamps, welfare, and dealing with social services. I never had a Christmas. I never had a birthday.
I've been blessed enough to have my eyes open because of music, first and foremost.
One thing you get from me is peace, love, and positivity.
My girlfriend has to beat me up to get me to relax because I work all the time.
I'm just here to say, 'Just be a good person, and really respect others.'
When I grab the microphone, I am the greatest rapper, musician, and artist that ever lived, ever, in the entire universe - but when I put that microphone down, I am a man with so much to learn, personally and professionally.
Everybody has culture, even white people have culture, but its different with me. So in high school, I was hanging out with the black and Hispanic kids. I'm not hating on white people. I hang with white people, too, but that's where I felt most accepted because I could relate to them more.
I enjoy certain things, but I don't go out; I don't party. I just like watching movies, making fun music, and having a good time hanging out with the people who helped me get here - I'm a really simple guy.
You have to respect people for what they do. Just because you don't like it, it's like, I don't like heavy metal too much, but I can still respect it.
All I've done since I was young was hone my craft.
I wear my inspirations on my sleeve.
I've invested a couple million into touring, and that's paid off.
