A lot of people heard about gin and juice for the first time from Snoop Dogg, but it was nothing new in rap music, and it was nothing new in the black community.

In reality, I know I'm not hurt directly by sexism; however, my life is made less because of it, so I started thinking about the fallout from relationships in which people feed off each other.

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.

I was an avowed professional revolutionary by the time I was 15.

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.

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.

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