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.

I just make music based on what I believe.

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

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.

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.

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

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