As a working musician, your first instinct is to try and do your job. It wasn't always my aspiration to sing; I just wanted to be a great working musician. But then Flying Lotus suggested I try, and nothing has ever been the same since.
I grew up in Compton: 116th and Wilmington.
I actually went to an arts middle school with Shia LaBeouf, but even there, I was one of the weirder kids.
I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass.
'Looney Tunes' was not a children's cartoon. I don't care what anybody says. It was very politically charged, very racial. And then they tried to soften it up for kids later. But it was for the adults.
I feel like I try to write from an honest of a place as I can - without scaring people off too much, I guess.
