Kyle

Growing up a good person, it's a lot harder than you'd think.

Randomly enough, all of my favorite rappers growing up were East Coast rappers. I don't know. I just related to them a little more at first - because if you're born in L.A., and you lived there your whole life, Snoop Dogg literally sounds like cars driving by. You feel me? You hear Snoop Dogg so much.

Growing up in California has completely made me the person that I am.

I heard 'Why,' and I think that's when I first started learning about Jadakiss.

The Kyle who made 'Smyle' honestly has a little more conflict in his life. He has a little more weight on his shoulders. He feels like he has to make an album about something. It's a Kyle with duty, with a plan, with a responsibility.

I just want to reach a point where I have an opportunity to impact the entire world with one song.

I want to make an impact on people. Like John Lennon writing 'Imagine,' a song that changes an entire generation of people.

Shooting a music video sometimes can be a job.

I feel like one of my strengths is writing about stories that are unique to me but somehow relate with everyone, and the one thing I've found is that if you make a song wholly unique to you, then you don't have to compete with everybody, because nobody else can make a song like you.

That was everything to me as a kid. When I'd see someone on MTV, it was like, 'Wow, they're the real deal.'

I've been compared to Drake before and Kid Cudi.

People should listen to my music if they are into a lot of different genres and kind of want to get it all at once, if they want to listen to a story, an interesting story about somebody else.