Alex Tumay is a recording engineer who works a lot with Young Thug and a load of other rappers, like Quavo. I'm just a fan of his work.
As long as you're being yourself and putting out what you want to put out, it'll be the best thing you could do.
When I fifteen or sixteen and was in London, moving from a small town and now going to a big city, I discovered so much new music. Finding all of that music and being inspired that much all at once, that was the benefit of being from a small place.
I've never been uncomfortable sharing stuff. It's almost the opposite. I'll say the most blunt, brutally honest thing about any situation.
I feel like collaborating is something I need to try more of.
Really I've just gotta be making really great music that I love and not worrying too much about what other people are gonna think about it.
I want nice songs. I don't want to worry about where I have to place songs on a playlist. I'm looking to make genuine, great songs and put them together into albums.
I grew up in a small village on the border of Hampshire and Surrey. When people ask, I tend to say that I'm from Haslemere.
A lot of music influences me in other ways than this, but I've always taken a lot of influence from Stevie Wonder, Frank Ocean, and Jeff Rosenstock for the Rex music. They were also the first three artists that released albums where I enjoyed every song.
I took piano lessons and I wanted to play drums when I was six. Luckily enough, my parents let me have a drum kit in my room - which is kind of crazy.
The first person on the BBC that played me was Huw Stephens. I was sat around my laptop with my girlfriend and my family, and it was super-exciting. It felt weird, and it sounded weirder, but it was great.
I love things that are really linear and perfect and simple.
I think there's no limit to ambition, and if you want something, you can make anything happen, so go for it.
I'm sure there's some awful video of me singing when I was, like, 13 or 15 at my old school that my dad didn't take down off YouTube.
I realized that you can achieve so much at the front of a stage, releasing the music yourself and being something more selfish than just the drummer.
I won't be the kind of artist speaking in riddles all the time - it will be lyrics that make sense the moment I say them.
I wear my musical heart on my sleeve and show all my influences off. I'm happy for someone to point out that my song sounds like someone else's.
