When I was five years old, me and my cousin got into a fistfight because when "That's the Way (I Like It)" came on the radio, he said, "That's my song," and I said, "No, that's my song."

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

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.

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.

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.

I thought there were too many songs about people's personal lives.

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