But that kind of all sounds like work. Is there stuff you want to do in terms of traveling and—?

Yeah, I want to take a vacation. It's tough, though, man. I feel I'm missing out, you know? It's tough for me to go and just, like, be still. Just thinking about it, I get fidgety, you know?

Yeah.

I got kids and [my son is] going to be two years old, and I've been on the road since he's been born, so yeah, getting back tapped in with the fam. And my [other] son, I know he's into music, I know he wants to do some acting and stuff, too, so encouraging those things and just, like, chilling with wifey and family, and eating. But it's always so tough.

Andrew White

I want to get into… it all does sound like work, but yeah, I want to just develop more into movies and maybe do voiceover stuff, helping to produce movies. I've been working on scripts and stuff.

There's like a lot of things that I still have to learn from besides music. So, like, kind of just throwing myself into something else where I feel like, okay, I'm starting at square one. Which is like family time in a sense, too. I'm away so much, that when I come back it's like, Oh shit. How do I just be chill, dump the trash, do regular shit, pay attention to my kids?

Have you always been a big cinephile?

I love movies, and I went to a magnet high school, and we didn't have sports. And one of the courses was film editing, so we worked on Adobe Premiere. And I loved it. I loved making my own home videos of my sisters and editing. So I would love to produce some flicks. Dre is always like, "Yo, you got to make sure you got something that's besides touring and doing music, like I got Beats.” And I’m like, “You right.” And after the last tour, I was like, Oh shit, okay, I’m going to be cool. You’re going to have a long career and you don't want to have to tour. But I love doing shows, I love being in the studio. But I've been thinking about that lately, like: What else are you going to do?

Your music is obviously very much of Los Angeles. But we're in Virginia, around Pharrell and Timbaland and all these people. So I'm wondering if and how Virginia and these different artists may have impacted your music.

Absolutely, hugely. Timbaland, Magoo, Missy, Pharrell, N.E.R.D, Pusha T, and Malice of the Clipse, Teddy Riley. V.A. is crazy, bro. Something was definitely in the water over here. I wanted to make beats coming up. My beat heroes were the Neptunes and Timbaland and Just Blaze, Missy. So much was coming from here. And that hometown love is something in unison with what I had going on in Ventura County and in Oxnard. It's a beach town, very sleepy, no one ever gets things over there. And I felt like with [Pharrell] putting this [festival, Something in the Water] on over here, it’s the same vibe. It’s like no one ever comes here, but [Pharrell]’s bringing Jay, he’s bringing everything. And I realize, these fools, they grew in sleepy towns and they were making crazy noise and maybe that was part of why they had such a big impact. Sometimes the hardest places to impress or the hardest places to get out of are these small places. And that's definitely how it was in Ventura County.