I think it's important for people to understand that as a woman, I can only rap about the parts I have.

I think the people get that I'm just kind of an anomaly in a certain way.

I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.

I am American. If you drop me in Seoul, I don't think I'm going to thrive there.

More than anything, I'm an American kid, and my music reflects that more so than being an Asian-American. I think it's important but also something that can detrimental to your career if celebrated too much.

I think that's why I was able to do well in the beginning: because it was such a foreign thing. People frame it in a negative way, like, 'For Asian-Americans there's no one out there, so that must be really bad for you.' No, I benefited from it.