When my daughter was born, that was the first time I cried from happiness.

Rappers are usually rapping about knowledge they think people need to get by in the world. If there's no movement that gives the idea that the knowledge people need is how to take over the system, what they see is that people need to know how to hustle; people need to know how to survive.

A lot of us don’t get a sense of our personal power. I know the vast difference that one person can make in changing things.

When my daughter was born, that was the first time I cried from happiness.

Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like that.

I wanted to write a song about sexism, but I didn't want to do it in a mechanical way and be like, "Don't be sexist!" because that's not how I talk in regular life.

What the media is playing is what people want is really a false idea. Capitalism and people who control the market have a large hand in everything. It doesn't have anything to do with figuring out what the crowd wants to hear. It has to do with the media deciding what they think people want to hear.