You know your music history So are you totally happy producing music today or do you ever wish you could have popped up in a different time or place?

Oh yeah, I like right now. I would have failed at any other time. The internet saved my life. I would be a mess without the internet. I feel like even if I was born a few years earlier, it probably wouldn’t have worked out.

Do you think we live in the most democratic period in music history?

Yeah, kind of. The world got really small with the internet. Someone would write a crazy new track and no one would hear it for years because they couldn’t just find it. Now, some kid changes the game with a song, and he uploads it right after he made it. It’s instant. I can’t keep up with it, and it’s intimidating, the amount of game-changing music that’s coming out. I hear so much music all the time that is so new and confusing, it’s crazy. It fucks me up.

I know you find hip-hop and dubstep to both be really important musical movements. Can you talk about why you feel that way?

I love hip-hop because it’s a global force for peace, but it’s also just some dirty gangbanger shit that has nothing to do with peace or equality. It’s just about getting lit and having fun. There’s no other genre that hits both ends of that spectrum. Hip-hop is in your face, either one way or the other, or both. And I think trap is the dopest thing in the whole world. Trap is this new thing that is so nonspecific that it’s changing music. Dubstep is always 140 and it has these specific aspects to it. There’s no BPM or anything specific at all to trap. But then there’s real trap. The specific, real, original trap is just Atlanta music.

So what’s up next for you? Are you still just cruising off “Bloccd” for now?

Yeah, kind of. I just have a bunch of shows lined up right now. It’s weird because a lot of people correlate my recent success with “Bloccd, but the timeline is slightly backwards. I had been signed to Circus and Rogue Agency before “Bloccd” came out, but then it got really big and every loose end in my entire life tied together in one month. I feel like I’m tripping every day. It is bizarre. I never thought I’d be standing in Atlanta, headlining a show.