Most major-label artists put out singles that fit radio formats, but you haven’t released anything remotely in that vein. Have you felt any pressure to make a hit?

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It’s changed. The last two years, no important artist has had a “single.” Drake doesn’t have a single. J. Cole doesn’t have a single. Jay Z doesn’t have singles. They just put out music. OG Maco had a single. OT Genasis has a single. You can’t predict the singles. So the fact that labels are still trying to market singles is weird to me.

No one listens to the radio anymore. We got auxiliary cords, Sirius, Pandora, and Spotify. Who wants to hear clean versions of music? In our phones is what’s important. The radio’s not breaking singles. Vine is breaking singles now. Twitter’s breaking singles.

When I die, no one’s going to play my single. You feel me? The question is, “What did this person stand for?” I feel like my songs are things I stand for. I’m trying my hardest to paint a picture with the music, because without these pictures being painted, you fall by the wayside.

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You first came to people’s attention through appearing on songs with Odd Future. What were you thinking when that was all blowing up?

I don’t care about none of that shit. I worry about myself. People think I was from Odd Future; people think I was from Raider Klan. People think I was from all sorts of weird shit. I don’t do none of that, bro—I’m by myself. I ignore that shit because you can’t really control it. I’d rather stay at home.

I’ve been a gang member. I’ve dealt with that structure before. At the end of the day, I’ve been here for a minute, so I try my hardest to let the music speak for itself. I’ve seen people get big and then fall off. Even some of my very close friends were some of the biggest shit on earth and now... That’s scary. We’re trying our hardest to stand the test of time because no one can do that. Every album release that we’ve seen recently has been talked about for a week.

Even the Kendrick album.

They didn’t give a fuck about the Kendrick album, and that shit was culturally something, at least to me. That shit sounds like a moment in this time period.