I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.

But I still rap like I'm on my Pharoahe Monch grind.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.

Music is reflection of self.

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

Step by step, heart to heart, left right left. We all fall down like toy soldiers. Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win.

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.