Goldlink

“We're all people at the end of the day.”

“I went to my first go-go when I was in, like, sixth grade.”

“I like being on my own, building on my own, and standing on my own.”

“I guess rap has such a bad name, because everybody can do it now, and that's probably why people don't want to be considered as rappers anymore, they're not taken seriously anymore. But yeah, rap is definitely the core of what I want to do. But I'm also an artist so I try to do as many things as I can, but I always keep rap in the equation.”

“I wasn't really actively trying to pursue music, so I was really just allowed to create freely without any pressure or outside influences like, 'Oh, I should be making this' or 'I should be collaborating with this person.' It was just kind of like whatever I wanted to do. I was just having fun with it.”

“Beck's 'Hell Yes' was the most game changing video ever.”

“If I'm everybody's hero from Canada all the way down to Australia, but I'm not able to come home? Then I failed.”

“My mother was into church so she listens to gospel music. I like the way gospel is composed... the great vocalist chord and the way they make you feel.”

“Soundcloud is the best thing that ever happened to me honestly.”

“My biggest influence is my city. There's so much there. We have our own lingo, food, music and culture.”

“I used to sing in a choir when I was young. My mom forced me hardbody. I was hella young, like 5 years old.”

“Black women, dark skin women are the original beautiful people to me.”

“When I write songs, I write from a lot of perspectives.”

“My mom and I weren't that close when I was growing up because she was gone seven days of the week; she was always in church.”

“Love to me has no bounds.”

“Black History in 2019 and beyond is all about inclusivity.”

“I'm very self-aware.”

“I'm from the DMV. I grew up in Maryland my whole life and I was born in Washington D.C.”

“I just see potential in things that aren't there and how it's going to make you feel. Like, if it makes me feel a certain way, I try and create the vibe of how that felt to me. And try and create it for someone else.”

“I won an ASCAP award two years in a row - that was sick.”