The Detroit rapper, currently top of the US album charts, remembers Star Wars, the therapeutic beauty of Nintendo 64 and learning from Kanye West
I would go to my best friend’s house in the suburbs and his family were white, so would expose me to a whole different way of living, by being into comics and superheroes. The first comic book character I fell in love with was Nightcrawler from X-Men. I bought all his toys. My brother and I fucked with Wolverine heavy, too, and I had the claws. When we were recording Mercy [with Kanye West, Pusha T and 2 Chainz] near Buckingham Palace, it felt like rap’s Avengers were getting together.
