I like Rick Ross as a person. I like Jay-Z and Kanye West as people. But I hate the companies that they record for.

As a late teenager, the punk movement pushed me further. In particular, the Clash, which happened to leak through the time of disco, showed me that there was this cross-cultural sound that could cut across genres and audiences. Like punk was to disco, rap music was a rebellion against R&B, which had adopted disco and made it worse.

With black people, there are 50 Hitlers over the course of history.

Once you think bigger than yourself then the cause becomes the issue if you think on a higher plain you can come together to work on our problems.

If you go get a passport, it might encourage you to at least consider the world around you.

Young people are having a hard time with what's reality and what's fantasy these days...We created discussion. It wasn't to create controversy for sale's sake, but rather it was my obligation to use the medium for discussion. Nobody's discussing the grown-up topics; they are faking and fronting.

We didn't invent music, so it's been here for a reason, and it has powers for a reason. So we should pay attention to it, because we might not know the clear answers but we should at least acknowledge that it is something there. To not be playin around with it.