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I have a recognizable silhouette.

Being with a bunch of people who never take a day off means that you're not taking a day off.

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I warm up a lot harder for a Clipping show than I ever did for 'Hamilton.'

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The fact that I got to do the 'Hamilton' BET Cypher is a totally crazy thing because I've watched the BET Cyphers since it started. I've seen every one. I study them. Because I'm a rapper. It's what you do.

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Being on stage, I know my function. I just do the thing.

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TV is really about keeping things fresh and making sure you have the most energy possible for these very short spurts of time.

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That's the great thing about being a teenager. You think you're a genius.

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I think rappers spend a lot of time trying to figure out what is new. 'How can I say this in a way that no one has ever said it before?'

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The act of being nice to somebody at Starbucks is actually a huge thing. It's a real change you can effect in somebody's life every day.

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I went to Hebrew school but opted out of a bar mitzvah.

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I've always been a fan of 'Black-ish.'

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I've always been very supported. I've never really been sad. I've just been broke. They are very different things.

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As a kid, I was very shy.

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I majored in theater. I did plays. But musicals were not my thing.

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It wasn't until I got out in the world and started worked professionally when I realized that the people I admired were the ones who had taken the little snippets of what they learned that worked for them - and strung them together in their own technique.

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I can jump really high, yeah. I'm proud of that. I'll take it.

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I'm aware that not everybody gets that feeling of ease walking through the world that I have.

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I have this thing. I can rap really fast. I can rap really, really fast. It's a thing I'm good at and I've trained myself to do; it's a thing I do in the Bay Area.

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I think people understand I'm not actually the real Thomas Jefferson.

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I have a recognizable silhouette.

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I felt so loved and taken care of, and that's a huge part of the reason I'm able to do what I do.

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I get excited to create things that don't exist in the same world as 'Hamilton' because that world is really well done and doesn't need me to inform it anymore.

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There's this thing about authenticity when you rap, right? Whether or not it's real, it has to feel real.

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We're very used to seeing a huge diversity of white people. You never just expect two white people on TV to feel the same way.

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At some point, I'll do more McDonald's commercials if I have to.

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If you do enough rap shows, you get a pretty good sense of an audience. You start to develop this sense of what a feeling of a room or a group is.

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As a kid, you don't have a ton of spaces where you are honored, where what you think is honored and what you say is revered.

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I've been sort of gentrification-obsessed. Right before I left Oakland in 2012, I was feeling it. Now I go back sporadically, and the change is drastic.

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The tricky thing about fast raps is not really the delivery of them; it's the writing of them, with consonants close enough together that you don't trip up over them.

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I sort of have this feeling about change in general. We can make baby steps on a macro level. We can try to shift policy, voting and changing who's in office. But we can make huge, sweeping changes on a personal level and in your immediate circle, or just the people around you.

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That's the great thing about how 'SVU' works. They work with so many Broadway actors, they are very used to getting us out in time for the show.

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Learning how to get a point across is pretty useful in any situation.

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Being an emcee onstage is mostly about crowd control, about monitoring energy levels.

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That's what hip-hop is - it's about meeting the music where you are, and then you add on top of that. It's about coming at it with your full self.

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Broadway was weird.

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I'm from the Bay Area, so I know a lot about granola.

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There's no reason for somebody who's good at writing rap to be good at freestyling. They're different parts of your brain. You can develop both skills. I'm a much better writer.

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