Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.

If you don't believe inside yourself that you can learn a lot, nobody's ever going to do that for you. Nobody's ever gonna give you self drive. Nobody's ever gonna give you self esteem. Nobody's ever gonna give you your self worth. You have to set it for yourself.

If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something.

My genes tie me to those that despised me.

I would just like to see hip-hop journalism in general take a step up and match the artistry. There have been great writers in music who are the caliber of artist as a writer as the people that they're covering.

I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.

Nowadays I embrace it all/Beautiful ideals and amazing flaws.