Interviews

“I’ve learned what I need to be a self-employed person making art in the world.”

“The sisterhood shared between us allows us to be free in who we are.”

“Music is my everything.”

“If tomorrow didn’t exist, would I be happy with my output? I almost died and it was not chill.”

“I love [hip-hop] because I spent so much time trying to perfect it.”

South Florida rapper Splash Zanotti learned this lesson the hard way.

“I can create any world I want for myself.”

"It’s a goal to say shit that people could use but haven’t thought to yet."

"When it’s your art, it’s important you protect your vision and your plan for it."

Here are the keys to keeping a city’s underground alive.

“I fell in love with the creativity of always trying to figure out ways to do something different every time I touched the microphone.”

“I’m gonna put that battery in your back.”

“I had put down singing because I felt like I didn’t have anything to say.”

“The goal is to get out of thinking and into feeling.”

In a sit-down interview with Yoh in Miami, the Dreamville emcee reminds everyone why he’s a winner.

“By admitting you’re vulnerable, it’s letting people know you still wanna know how to be better.”

“I’m very careful when it comes to my position and cultural appropriation.”

“I’m not gonna hide the fact that I’m singing about a girl.”

If we take Denzel Curry for granted today, he might not be here tomorrow.

“I saw him become a rockstar.”

“My dream was definitely to be in the music business, but I didn’t know in what capacity.”

“If you look at the pool that we have already, there aren’t any brown girls.”

“I’ve improved on a lot of shit.”

“My goal is to transmit something that is bigger than myself.”

“Life as a producer is always in waves.”

“If I was leaning into something I felt uncomfortable writing down, the better it really was.”

“We’re all always learning and evolving.”

“I haven't always had projects where I wanted to speak.”

“I hope to make people pause.”

“I wrote through the story arc of the last year of my life.”

"Sometimes people look too far outward, but you should first start inside yourself and then work your way out."

“When I’m not manic, music is the only thing keeping me stable.”

“Above all, I can rap.”

“I get to do whatever the fuck I want on a song.”