It would be awesome to stay popular, but if I was only an underground artist, I would be okay with that.
I'm not a pop rapper. That's nothing against pop music - I love pop music. I've jumped on pop records for people and still will, but I'm not a pop artist. I didn't start from there. I started in underground music. I consider myself an underground artist, as well as a producer.
I had always been a fan of Nas, but I never met him. This is the one guy in the industry who's, like, the phantom rapper.
I've never sold a lot of records.
They think that I was like Amy Grant, when actually no! The label went bankrupt and maybe sold a couple hundred records and that's about it. I was just trying different things.
I do like Burial; he's so curiously clumsy, you can't help but be moved. It's so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.
I'm an underground mix-tape artist who's had a level of commercial success.
The last time I put out 'Raw,' that boosted me up in the underground to one of the top underground artists who was making moves and touring around the world.
Every underground artist has that little chip on his shoulder, like "I'm stuck here, and I'm trying to get out of this little hole that I'm in." You've got this core fan base, but it's limited.
