I always liked to draw, and when I was a kid, the Internet wasn't big at all, so I would go to Internet cafes and search Google images for cartoon characters and save it to my USB drive.
— Rich Brian
My dad is constantly looking up my name on Twitter, every single day. He made a Twitter account just for that.
All I have to do is to do my thing. I don't have to talk about it like, 'Oh, I'm representing for Asians.' I'm just... doing it.
When I found out my parents wanted to homeschool me, I was so bummed out. I missed all my friends. But now I realise that if I wasn't homeschooled, I'd be the lamest kid ever - I wouldn't have been able to speak English, for a start.
I used to play the drums when I was, like, 5 through 10.
I would also love to get into acting. I love being in front of the camera.
I didn't want to be one of those people that does something that blows up and keeps doing it for way too long.
Every time I get the chance, I just talk to myself basically in English just to practice my pronunciation.
I have very little thoughts on Lil Xan. I think his music is very unique.
I started making raps in 2014, recording stuff from my iPhone and putting them together in Sony Vegas, which is a video editing program.
I'm definitely trying to make longer songs, but if it's short and good, I'm not going to do anything about it.
My influences are a wide variety: from Dave Chappelle stand-up comedy specials on YouTube, to watching chick-flick comedy movies, to scrolling through stuff people say on the Internet.
I grew up in West Jakarta, in a middle-to-low-class neighbourhood.
Me and my family used to have a Christian covers band together... like rock Christian music, upbeat, all in Indonesian. The band was called Roasted Peanuts.
I feel like, with an album, that's how you get to know an artist.
One day, I was just thinking about something, and then - you know when you think, and you have that inner voice in your head? I realized it was in English.
I've always felt like I could express myself better in English just because the way the grammar works.
It doesn't really bother me if people misunderstand me. It's cool, but you can't do anything about it.
I started listening to rap music in 2012 or something, because that was when I started becoming friends with American people, and they showed me rappers to listen to. I actually started listening to Macklemore a lot. He's the first rapper I started listening to.
I wouldn't really call myself a spokesman for anything. All I wanna do is inspire young people everywhere - not just Indonesia.
My sister sings, and my brother plays the keyboard.
At, like, 11, I think, that was just me watching a lot of YouTube videos, and I whenever I had the chance, I would talk to myself, practise pronunciation. Then I found out about hip hop and became friends with American people through Twitter. I was like, 'Yo, I need to be in a country where everybody speaks the same language.'
Some fan literally broke into my house. He literally came in and said, 'I'm a huge fan. I brought you food.' He brought me three boxes of noodles.
Things can go away just like that. You got to be always respectful and nice and positive.
In my neighborhood, there are stray goats everywhere, and, someone owns it. Someone has a farm full of goats. At daytime, they just let them loose, but then at nighttime, they just come back. So, it's like, in daytime, the whole neighborhood is just filled with goats walking around.
