Feeling is always first for me in anything. I think the only way for sure that I know how do that is to write songs about things I feel strongly about.

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.

The greatest threat of harm doesn't come from any bomb

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

All the pressure I have is from myself. I have a lot of pressure inside me. I wanna be great. I don't wanna be average.

The kids now are more productive than we ever were; they're a lot more prolific and productive in the sense that they have to have music out all the time.