Masego

“From a shallow standpoint, I like nice things.”

“I write about love so I can keep focused on the true goal: to be with my lady, lady and travel with her and have my li'l family unit.”

“I've always been attracted to something that's a little bit left - Korean R&B, South African hip-hop. I'm really curious about my homies back in Jamaica, what are they listening to? I'm always searching.”

“I feel like anything with my music can be traced back to a woman.”

“Jazzy Jeff is somebody who taught me what I really wanted to do for other people. He has the big ol' house where musicians can come there, stay for a while, create music, eat, reset.”

“Gospel influences your soul. If you've had church in your background... it's just a part of your musical DNA.”

“When I don't know all the rules, I just break them all. And it becomes like a higher level of music because of that.”

“If you're really chosen for music, it just comes to you and you just let it pass through. That's how I create.”

“I have two sisters, so there was no brother to beat up on. As a result, I've never hidden from emotions.”

“I remember my first trip to Toronto. There was this street musician playing an instrument I've never seen before - like, he had a hang drum on the left side and this random bagpipe, bodhran stick type of thing. It was the craziest thing ever! So I sampled it for a beat.”

“I like how hip-hop is just shocking and fun.”

“Something I do naturally is I just involve women in my professional work. I hire them, I pay them, I put them in the workplace I'm involved in.”

“I'm going to be the first person to do every creative idea he's ever had in his head.”

“When things line up, the music just flows.”

“I like to produce music and put it out and hopefully it can help people through whatever crisis they have.”

“There's not a lot of thinking in my music. I freestyle a lot of things and organize it later, and then it becomes a song.”

“'Black Love' made my mama cry, so this is one of those song songs. When I hear it, it makes my heart do some things.”

“My father's from Jamaica.”

“I was joked by a lot of older musicians because I was playing saxophone over trap beats or future bounce beats, and it just wasn't what you do. They were just like play some John Coltrane and get in the corner. But that's just not how I work.”

“When I was about 15 years old, I used to have a lot of jam sessions at my house. And all the kids would kind of come over, and I would kind of deejay some music that I discovered that month.”