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Definitely just growing up in general influenced me; Detroit happened to be where I was. I feel like the city definitely has made an impact on my life and made me who I am. Detroit has an unmistakable soul - nobody can duplicate the soul we bring to the game. From Motown to J Dilla to Eminem to anything.

I think me leaving Detroit shaped my style. Me leaving, going to New York, going to L.A. and seeing what they were doing there. I think that inspired me more than what people were doing back home.

I see the people in Detroit are very - they're like a lot of cities, but they're very proud to be from there and they really want to see change and they really want to see good things happen.

Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

My music is the essence of Detroit. At one time, we were the center of the world, man - Motor City.

For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.

I love this city. There's Cleveland pride in it for me. Everyone has each other's backs here.

I had a lot of romanticised ideas of what Detroit was like, but I didn't get there until I was 30, and it was very different than I had imagined it.

I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be here, and I can really see, what the city was. Like, I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was.

I was born and raised in Detroit.