Even with whatever people want to label me with, there are so many other sides to me.

The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.

I never want to confuse people or go over their heads.

When you're from the East Coast or you're from the South, people expect you to sound a certain way. So if you don't sound that way, people won't label you as that type of artist. For me, I had a whole new lane to create for myself being from Pittsburgh and being a Midwest artist.

I want to be an icon.

Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they're from.