When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!
As strong as we are, we have our moments. My mama is an African woman who had four kids and was a nurse for 25 years, and she had her moments. I've seen her cry.
Being the youngest, I was a bit of a mama's boy. I was really protected as I grew up, almost like I was in a bubble.
There ain't nobody I'd rather have alongside me in a fight than my mama with a broken bottle in her hand.
A lot of people just send me beats, and I pick the ones I like. See, once I said I was doing my album - because I know everybody and they mama - everybody just got in touch with me.
If my mama and daddy would've stayed together, one of them would've been dead, and the other would have been locked up for it.