The biggest thing that has happened to hip-hop is the clinging on to the corporation as the all-mighty hub of the music.

No matter what's in your head, you go up into any hospital, up to a terminal ward and it'll smack you right back into reality that, "Hey man, whatever you're dealing with, if it's heavy on your heart and head, you're gonna have to let that go, because there, some people are dealing with unavoidable situations that they can't let go." And then they eventually let those go, so, I mean, that's helpful.

I have to be conscious of what I'm sayin' because people are gonna come at me about this sh*t.

Alternative spaces, independent media, satellite, these all provide some tools by which we can work more independently and deal more directly with communities we hope to reach. Distribution is key, and finding alternative ways to do that with new media is critical.

You can't take anything with you. So I don't understand this whole psychotic area of greed, I don't get it.

Money is created by a machine... but you can't really create respect with a machine.

You can actually take your pain and processes it into some kind of form of art. So I mean, I've easily always been able to do that, but also I've always been able to give myself perspective - or, you know, older people always give you perspective.