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Favorite summer album ''Hotter than July, Stevie Wonder. It's classic. I'm really into classic albums. There's a ton of hip-hop records and a ton of young R&B artists that I paid attention to throughout the years, but as it relates to a classic body of work, I feel like the majority of the songs on that album told a story that spoke to the spirits and where people were in life. It wasn't necessarily a summer album, but yet it came out in the summer — in July. Maybe if it didn't, it was hot.''

All-time favorite album ''[Michael Jackson's] Off the Wall. It was like the most hood I think Michael could ever be and I loved it. I love the substance of it, the fact that you got great entertaining out of it, you got great vocal out of it, the lyrical substance and content of it was just so cool. It kinda matches where life is to a certain extent right now, like if you put those records on right now, they still work in this day and time. And you still use dialogue that was used in those songs today.''