My genes tie me to those that despised me.

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

The key is always the actual art itself, the actual music. There are all these myths out here that like, if you do this little trick, if you use this little strategy, it'll do it for you.

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

Blind in the eye, so I see you with my heart

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

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.