Everyone's like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone's like, 'Hey, yeah!' and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you.
Miscommunication is the number one cause of all problems; communication is your bridge to other people. Without it, there's nothing. So when it's damaged, you have to solve all these problems it creates.
People think being alone is a luxury, but it's crucial: Whatever you're not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face.
You can't really start living until you can live with yourself.
I just write like a grown man, because that's what I listen to. I'm not even speaking complicated English... I don't do five-syllable words, I don't do four-syllable words. This is English. Rudimentary English.
In every person, you have a world of personalities and souls, a world of perspectives that you can share. You can get into anyone's shoes. You've got to be willing to stare at the ugliest part of yourself and deal with it.
Toronto is like a city of grandmas.
I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.
It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.
I've heard 'Piano Man.' That song is pretty cool.
I'm a weirdo, but I have a very strong moral code.
It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.
Rapping is the only time I'm serious.
At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
At the end of the day, I'm not some evil guy.
I'll always regret how I recorded 'Burgundy' 'cause it's not how I felt. The words that were coming out of my mouth and how I mean them, it's so much different.
I'm obsessed with proverbs because, to me, flexing is being able to say the most with the least amount of words.
I didn't have a dad coming up. I didn't have someone to be scared of.
A lot of times, I write and have to scrap it. You don't know what I'm talking about because the words are too much, and it's overwhelming.
Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.
