I am a person who always feels like I am not doing the right thing because there's always so many things that need to get done.

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.

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.

It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to musicians.

What first got me involved in politics was being 14, and a youth organizer comes to my house with a van full of 14 year old girls. "Hey, you want to go to the beach with us? But first we're going to go support the cannery workers' strike in Watsonville."

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

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.