Death to the pigs is my basic statement.

I just make music based on what I believe.

A lot of what we say and do are regurgitated things that have to do with what we think we're supposed to be saying and doing.

In high school, everybody rapped. You just pounded on the table.

All of a sudden it became that hip hop didn't used to be about partying; hip hop used to be about putting out a message.

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

Becoming a father made me a lot more sentimental than I ever was before. I never cried at movies before I became a parent. I feel music more intensely. I think of my political ideas as ideas about how I want to interact with other human beings as opposed to abstract theories about how the world should be.