Growing up in Los Angeles was great because…hip hop there is fresh, cool and rebellious.

As a teenager... I experimented. I emceed and did some free-styling during lunch, outside of clubs while waiting in line, and inside clubs battling. There was also free-style fellowship with acts such as King Tee, Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg and the Dogg Pound, Onyx, Tribe Called Quest and the Wu Tang Clan.

We were digging... for new stuff to be original. Nothing was handed to us.

I decided music was my career when… I signed the contract and realized I couldn't be out. Didn’t know how scary this contract could be.

My biggest music influences are… what I grew up listening to and all my ex girlfriends.

The Korean music scene hasn’t changed… it has just gotten more money-centric and systematic. Plus, it's gone global.

I work best with… fly ladies, because they are fly.

I deal with my disease by… knocking hate out with love. But it's an ongoing battle. Hope love prevails.

If I get tired on tour…I drink Redbull. Sleep helps too.

Tiger JK will be performing on May 24, 10pm at the Clarke Quay Fountain Square.