The idea of 'talking white,' a lot of people grew up around that, just the idea that if you speak with proper diction and come off as educated that it's not black and that it's actually anti-black and should be considered only something that white people would do.

It's important to go against the grain. My favorite celebrity, across arts and sports and everything, is Muhammad Ali. And he was famous for speaking inflammatory things that were polarizing but also were important to building who he was as a man and his legacy. And in the end, he was right about most of the s... he was talkin' about.

I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been something I was saying for a long time.

I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it's weird.

My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music.

A cool & diversified version of a mix tape. The BreakBeat Poets is a thorough and complete summation of Golden Era writers who continue to build the scene of literary and performance poetry.

I've never met Eminem; you don't meet Eminem. He has his own secret service.