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Nirvana is my favourite band.
Every time Emma Gonzalez speaks, I listen.
Human beings desire comfort and familiarity.
I'm one of the only people I know that often sleeps in boots.
That's one thing I can't lose: I can't lose the realness in my music.
Wings' was my moment to free myself from everything that was destroying me.
Prince is one of my biggest idols of all time, and he's the real King of Pop.
Emotion is a broad spectrum and I just been to a lot of sides of my own emotions.
I download music everyday, I know music is free and so does everybody else you know.
I was raised by a woman and I'm the middle child of two sisters who are young Black women.
I'm never satisfied with anything. It can make things hard for myself, but it also pushes me.
My brain's always working, and gears are turning 24/7. So I was trying to think of solutions.
By nature I can be a confrontational person. I don't feel like there's anything wrong with that.
I started taking my mental health seriously, really working with a therapist and a psychiatrist.
I'm from Chicago and that's where I created all of my most prized possesions, which are my songs.
My mother was from upstate New York; she's of Irish and German descent. My father was from Ghana.
I had white family members, black family members, white friends, black friends by the time I was 16.
There's always somebody telling you what you're not supposed to like. But that's not the way I grew up.
Coming from Chicago, Lollapalooza is the one weekend of the summer when actual Chicagoans are kept out.
The things I have to say on and off the record are important, and I say them because I want to be heard.
You can't even tell, but a lot of the time your favourite rappers are wearing a bunch of fake jewellery.
I'm from a family of educators. I grew up with books in my house and in my hands and my parents in my life.
I think first of all my purpose is to be me. I didn't come here to specifically be a role model or anything.
The Clash is pretty much my favorite band, and their songs like 'Rock the Casbah' are political dance tracks.
On family trips and vacations, I remember walking around with my little sister and making funny songs on the spot.
I have the kind of conscience that it doesn't feel right if I watch other people suffer and I do nothing about it.
Skateboarding was my introduction to rap and the first rap song that I really liked was KRS-One 'Step Into A World.'
I fell off a bridge when I was, like, 17 years old and got electrocuted by 15,000 volts of electricity - fell 30 feet.
I just thought I could broaden my impact and my reach by starting a non-profit and putting investment into our community.
I might have 'couch syndrome.' I'm always sleeping on the couch at home, even when I have a comfortable bed. I'm used to it.
Oftentimes I feel like I can, through the music, paint a picture of something that I can't look anywhere and see in my real life.
I've been harassed by police my whole life and seen people who looked like me treated like animals at the hands of law enforcement.
I feel that my purpose is to shed light on some of the darker sides of our world, and to lend a hand and a voice to people struggling.
I don't see why clothes have to be women's or men's. It seems pretty limiting. I buy women's pants, women's shoes - everything, really.
Hip-hop has always been speaking about the way your brain is manipulated by stress and struggle because hip-hop is borne from struggle.
I always try to take performances as an opportunity to implant my spirit into the hearts and minds of anyone in a hundred-yard vicinity.
I love putting in work for the city that raised me with my foundation SaveMoneySaveLife, and putting resources into the streets of Chicago.
I used to print out lyrics from Nas songs and write my own lyrics in the same syllable count but with different words and different rhymes.
They say depression is just anger turned inward. Sometimes I turn it outwards, sometimes I turn it inward, but I know it's about self-worth.
From a musical standpoint, I was inspired by '90s hip hop, with a lot of drums and the tempos. I'm always inspired by David Bowie and Prince.
People think I'm angry and they're right. There's a lot to be angry about. But I'm also empathetic and ambitious and hopeful and happy at times.
As an artist, I try not to sound the same as others. Or even as myself. It's a constant, flowing web of influence. And information. And retweets.
My purpose is to unite people, to bring us together. And above all, to be a champion for justice and a vehement opponent of oppression and justice.
We're not able to hide behind myths of this being a post-racial society because Donald Trump has outlined exactly how a large portion of America feels.
I'm still alive to change the world and to do things that are significant. I don't know what they all may be, but I was put on this earth for a reason.
Thinking about the artists I've loved through the years, my favorites are the ones who've made music with cultural, societal and political significance.
I'm really into vintage clothes. So I've been... vintage shopping and kind of adding and reconstructing things and just doing a little bit of designing.
But I love Chicago summers on Lake Michigan, Philly cheesesteaks on South Street, falling in love in Brooklyn, street fairs in Asheville, North Carolina.
I think when your intent and your energy is authentic and it's real and it's of the moment and it's necessary, it will reach the people it needs to reach.
To be an American is to be indoctrinated with racism, violence, capitalism and manifest destiny, the principles upon which the land of the free was founded.