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I Think It's A Bit Of A Myth That Black Americans Need One Leader. We're Not A Monolith. And Now That Legal Segregation And Discrimination Has Been Pretty Much Abolished There Isn't The Sort Of Universal Mandate That A Black Leader Would Have. Black Folks Live In A Wide Variety Of Social Situations Right Now.

​w​e're So Used To Having Everything We Want At Our Fingertips So I Think That When Things Get Tough It's ​difficult ​for People To Persist Through That.

I Think The Most Important Thing Is That I'm Making Music That The People Enjoy. So The Fans, The People That Are Out There Listening To Music And Consuming Music, I Want Them To Enjoy It And Love It. And So That's More Important To Me Than Grammys.

I'm Trying To Be Me And Embrace All The Parts Of Me That Have Grown Up, Listened To More Music And Soaked Up More Influences.

Anybody Under The Age Of Forty Knows Hip-hop, Gospel And R&b Pretty Well, And It's All A Part Of What We Consider To Be 'black Music.' There Is A Natural Synergy Between The Three.