As I've submerged myself in news of the revolutions sweeping North Africa and the Middle East, I wanted desperately to feel part of what was going on. And then it hit me: This is what white people were doing to me after Obama was elected!

By the time I got to Harvard, I feel like I knew who I was, and my job there was to throw as much against the wall as possible, to see what would stick.

As far as hip-hop is concerned, I'm no expert and rarely think consciously about how I "represent" hip-hop.

There's certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don't pay active attention to, but to the extent that I represent some flavor of what's happening in hip-hop - it's subconscious.

There are so many ways to be and to be black at the same time, but we're finally seeing that full range expressed much more widely than before.

New York has been the best gift, in that the city pushes me to so many next levels.

I am not a yogi yet, but I aspire to have more balance in my life.