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There's a lot of pressure on my shoulders people don't really think about or appreciate.

It's cool to be an Indian rapper, but it's a challenge and a responsibility, too, because you have to represent everything the right way.

I never take nothing serious.

I'm the most easygoing guy.

When I record, I move stuff around a lot. I'll start off with a verse but then make that the hook.

I was really stressed out making 'Bad Habits.' I felt like if I didn't do well on that album, my career would be done, even though maybe that wasn't true. After that came out and went No. 1 and I did more sales than I'd ever done, I returned to the studio more confident, relaxed, not worrying about what people think.

Well, it's like, the neighborhood I grew up in is very multicultural. It goes from Chinese to white to black to Jamaican, everything, right?

To be honest, Nas was my favorite artist growing up. The way he told stories, I could close my eyes and imagine something while he's rapping. I always wanted to be able to do the same thing.

I became, like, pretty much the coolest kid in high school because I had started making beats for local rappers.

There are some times that I see people just hate and I'm like, 'Wow, do I suck this bad?' And yeah it's probably the pressure of my race, that they just can't get over it.

The craziest thing I've ever been called in my whole career is an industry plant.

It's tough for someone to see me from the outside, the way I look, to take me seriously.

I want to learn as much as I can from the people around me that know how to dress better than me.

I play 'Call of Duty' a lot with the photographer, Gunner Stahl.

I never want to be that old guy that doesn't pay attention to a young kid. I always noticed that when I was younger. The OGs to me, whoever was around me, I was like, wow. You're all really out of touch. I, I never want to be like that.

A lot of people say I use too much autotune but no, my voice is just robotic. I say a word with one flat note... I don't do vibrato. You can hear me, you know what it is.

I want people to see how much I really love music and what went into it.

In any creative process, the hardest thing is putting the pen to paper. You walk around the room staring at a blank piece like, 'What if I don't make a good song? What if I don't make a good book? What if I don't make a good painting?' You just gotta put your pen to the paper and not judge your work.

The first time I ever stepped on stage was the O2 Arena in London.

What people think about me don't get me paid. I don't care, but there's an element of a race wall. Maybe 'cause I'm Indian or something.