When you are creating something artistically and are speaking to or representing a culture that you know truthfully, you are doing a good job.

There's the shared imagery between hip-hop and comics, with some producers and emcees taking on super hero personas.

That's always been the process of our music, in a sense, keeping it simple, not being so heavy that you are beating people over the head, it's just weighted down and it's like, "oohhh I can't relate." People are able to relate because we talked about things that everyone has experienced, it doesn't matter your race or genre. Music was your mainstay. There was something in our element of music that connected.

In 2016, the conversation of the black experience is so broad, and it's very raw. I mean, c'mon, we have a black president. That's a major thing, and there are so many other significant occurrences that have come from the '60s and '70s up to now.

The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore.

Hip-hop was the culture that I grew up with; I am part of this culture.

When you are creating something artistically and are speaking to or representing a culture that you know truthfully, you are doing a good job.