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Profession : Rapper

Birth : November 3, 1989

I remember hiding behind my mom at parent teacher conferences.

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I was at my mom's house in the hood my whole life. I didn't get to see L.A. until I was 26.

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I used to think I was cursed 'cause of my high-pitched voice and image.

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On 'Reckless' I was just a rapper, but really I'm a producer, engineer, a musician, and needed to put that all into the music.

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Drake's an amazing person and we hang out all the time in Toronto.

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I've known Uzi for a while... he's the best.

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I'm always in the studio. The studio is kinda like rolling the dice every night. It's like gambling. It's like buying a lottery ticket. The more times you go to the studio, it's just more lottery tickets, more chances you win on the jackpot.

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Growing up where I grew up, you think you're grown, but you're not. I come off very immature in my songs and in my manners and everything and I'm trying to tighten up.

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It's definitely an underdog vibe at XO.

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I feel like Toronto is always going to be the most musical place as long as we stick to learning all the time.

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There might be a brown kid who paints and isn't sure, and his parents want him to be a lawyer or something. Not saying that's bad, but it's something that he's not interested in. I hope I inspire the brown guys, brown girls, everybody, just to follow their dreams with no fear. Because that's what I did.

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When I started going to middle school, all my friends were from my hood and were like, 'Listen to Nas and 50 Cent.'

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I take influence from weird synth-pop and put it into a hip-hop beat.

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I like to play video games. I like doing regular stuff too like go-karting and bowling.

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I watched The Weeknd create one of his biggest albums - the 'Starboy' album. That's when I first came around in the team.

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There's an album I did called 'Reckless' and that time is the perfect example of me not caring about music, me caring about everything else and forgetting about what brought me here. And that's why I feel like I had the results I did with that album.

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I had to find the balance between personal and professional.

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When I was like in grade 3, my mom bought me a boom box for Christmas. I would lay the boom box on my chest... I would put it on my chest and listen to music all day.

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I met Metro on FaceTime. In person, was in the studio. That was when we had already decided we were gonna do a mixtape together. There were three keyboards around him. Once I started to say, 'Hey, let me do something,' he kind of got out of my way and then the magic started happening.

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If it's the right song for me, I'll get on that song. It's not about the individual. It's about the music.

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