I always imagined how cool it would be to be the face of a Gap campaign!

Brooklyn for twenty years, Ive learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do

My favorite brand I have ever artistically collaborated, entertained, and supported over the years is the huge house that Coco Chanel built: Chanel

Thirty-five percent of all my dates were at the movies from 2013 to 2014

When I want to choose to work with someone, you know, I definitely have to do some research on their background and how they were raised as people

A lot of my favorite artists are fashion icons

Ill buy an old jacket and attach gold buttons and a couple royal patches. Or Ill find an old busted sweatshirt, tear out the zipper, and replace it with a $700 zipper. I make things my own

Europe were kind of the first ones to embrace my music; the kids from around the way would come out to my shows and really enjoy it

I focus a lot on my voice because I want it to be an instrument as well. I want my voice to add color

Whatever I receive from a higher power gets me pumped, which gets the crowd pumped, which gets me more pumped, and then we’re just pumped up.

I feel I have so much more to deliver than music

Go to American Apparel; they have all of the colors of socks

When youre a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous

Ive got to get my real skills up; like, I got to get my skills up, cause in case of a crazy catastrophe, I might have to learn how to swim

I want to produce the best popular music I can

Believe in yourself and believe in magic

I take references from the past and flip them

I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage

I like Jeremy Scott, and he has some really dope sneakers

I collect a lot of clothes when I travel around the world

I love fashion week. It has great energy and vibe

Mixtapes are very personal, and they describe who you are better than an album sometimes

To me, my style is comfortable

I remember in the fifth grade my dad would take me to Manhattan to shop for clothes

Dior jeans are one of my favorites.

Im a big fan of pop music – I think Marvin Gaye was pop music; things like that

I think its more interesting to play a place where no one really knows you, but I think touring is also great

On my early trips to London and Paris, in 2009, I started to shift to more wide-brimmed felt hats similar to Borsalinos and Stetsons

The Gap has always been an iconic, go-to brand that reminds me of my childhood

I didnt grow up drawing runway models and deciding what they should wear

Image plays a huge part in my music and in my lifestyle

I keep a creative group around me

I wanted to only collab with women for Lovers Holiday

When I was younger, I wasnt thinking about fit. Clothes are measured just for me now. I know thats not what the average person does, but Ive gotten smart about what fits my body the right way and what makes me feel comfortable

I’m not really good at skiing or snowboarding, or swimming, per s

Some people have style without even knowing it!

Im gonna walk super, super slow to when I turn 40 or something. To me, walking and floating slow represents how wealthy you are!

I like vintage shopping, but I also like to mix in high-end

Gold looks good on my skin, and gold looks good on black people, I think

Billie Jean was a negative dance song, and that was one of the best dance songs ever

I admire natural, untouched beauty.

I went to school for marketing for one year before I dropped out of college to make music

Shout-out to my dad – he influenced my style when I was 17

Karl Lagerfeld is the hardest-working man in showbiz!

I am more into guys fashion, but Im inspired by womens fashion in a weird way

I went to Brazil in 2010 and pretty much did songs about that trip. I was there just to hang out, chill with the people, and feel the vibe. It was great – tons of great women, great skin, good beaches. Cant complain; the food is great

I went to Texas a few times for gigs and adopted the cowboy look. Every man, at some point in his life, goes through a cowboy stage – everyone! Well, at least everyone that I look up to!

I can’t wait until I touch the stage, I’m going to catch the spirit and lose my mind.

As snap-backs became more popular, I started to search and expand my hat game

I never go black tie. I never grew up wearing ties or bow ties or anything

I’m pretty brand-less. If I wear a brand, then you can’t tell. I’m not about the logos

In high school, I always dressed to impress the girls.

Some people thought Theophilus was a fake name. Whatever

I want to change the color of Starbucks from green to red. Whose job was it to say, This is going to be green? I want that to be my job

When youre a kid, youre only exposed to whats going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing

I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. Theres a lot of cool stuff in there all the heartbreak of the country darkness

I like to wear a lot of one-tone color outfits – same color trousers, same color shirt

I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events

What I sell is the higher knowledge of knowing whats next and not following the trend of whats now

I wore my same look for six years. My hat and glasses – people recognize me now.

I started getting emails from Anna Wintour inviting me to her dinners. It was just surreal

I love to see the rarest movies, the most talked-about movies and documentaries. I read all the reviews and compare them to see if its worth going! I have a secret movie critic blog I have shown no one or promoted, and I intend to keep it that way

I like to go to the airport looking stylish – you never know who youll run into. Sometimes I have fans at the airports. I never want to be bummy looking

New York feels vibrant It feels electric to walk the streets at night

The first time I really listened to an album and thought, This album is mine, was Kanye’s Late Registration

A lot of young kids like myself use Instagram because it has swag – its more personal, and your friends generate it

Shopping at any level is a bit of therapy for my medulla oblongata

While my cousins were gang-banging, I was trying to learn what the Internet was about

My signature style is super uniformed. I like black pants, black blazers, and boots

I like connecting with people through technology.

I find it soothing, the thought of a movie theater

Your voice is like a very serious instrument that you have to tame if you want to be an amazing singer – Marvin Gaye or Michael Jackson

Im a big fan of Caribbean food, Spanish food, Dominican food – like rice and beans. Hot sauce just adds a different layer of boom to the food, you feel me?

You should treat your body like a canvas

Ive made sure to always update my web properties constantly – Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, my Hyperbeats blog making sure I divided content across all of them to keep each outlet fresh to keep people coming back

I am international. When I put out my second mixtape, we did four tours and a tour overseas

I love to hear a cool ambient sound at runway shows. It creates a good energy

You want everything to go right. You’ve just got to let yourself be free and have good energy

Becoming a walking, dancing, fire-breathing lifestyle dragon is not something you can pursue overnight! It takes years of studying, living, and understanding the modern culture!

My mind moves very fast. I go through a lot of moods and emotions

I connect to SpongeBob in a way; like, thats the homie. He can chill on the corner with me

I always tell myself, When Im working on my record, I wont cut my hair. I get so focused on the music that Im not really going to the hair shop and getting cut up. I just have one thing to focus on

Growing up as a city kid is a joyous time

The Internet is a very powerful tool; unfortunately its starting to get a little saturated

Do not fear the digital world, it will not kill us all

There were times when I was just listening to albums for the hype of it. Some albums, I would just put it on in my car, and me and my friends would just drive, that we’d wild out to, get arrested to.

I started getting emails from Anna Wintour inviting me to her dinners. It was just surreal

What I sell is the higher knowledge of knowing what’s next and not following the trend of what’s now.

It leaves a good legacy to have five records.

You gotta learn your body, how clothes fit on you.

I like connecting with people through technology

I moved my studio to Palm Springs ’cause I don’t like the idea of going to a studio every day like a job… I need to make a personal record, so I need to be in a house… I don’t want to be in a studio where people can hear the music ’cause I don’t know what it is yet.

I collect different game hats, like Syracuse Women’s Volleyball; I have a Navy Basketball hat. They’re all vintage but in new condition.

I like to go to the airport looking stylish – you never know who you’ll run into. Sometimes I have fans at the airports. I never want to be bummy looking

I need to travel, of course, with my laptop, so I can do my business on the road.

I like to revamp things; like, I make to make things better in my eye, but I don’t put out own lines… I just collab with my favorite brands.

I like vintage shopping, but I also like to mix in high-end.

I find it soothing, the thought of a movie theater

I hate writing texts to girlfriends because you can’t really see emotions in texts. You can get confused on what she says

I own over ninety-five different hats and, over the years, have lost or given away 120 hats. You gain to lose… you lose to gain

I believe your atmosphere and your surroundings create a mind state for you