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 think there's something your hormones do that makes a chemical change in the way you think.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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