Every time something tries to create respect with a machine it crumbles!

Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.

People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.

Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites.

We were coming out of the black community with this thing called rap music, which was basically black men yelling at the top of their lungs about what we liked and what we didn't like. It was disturbing to the status quo. It really shook things up. And those in power didn't know what to make of us, but they knew that we had to be silenced, stopped in any way from expressing our outrage.

As black people we were out to further our equality. I don't pay attention to the controversial connotations put on by media and the undermining labels they place on us. We pay attention to what our community situation is and what we need.

Maybe we need to look upon technologies and social networks as things that come out of us, not things that lead us. We can be on top of these things instead of them bein' on top of us as human beings.