I have a hard time memorizing stuff. I'm always in the process of writing a new song, so trying to learn a new one takes a minute.

There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.

I'm just a little bit sicker then the average individual I think.

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.

I don't like to give the sob story: growing up in a single-parent home, never knew my father, my mother never worked, and when friends came over I'd hide the welfare cheese. Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid. I didn't go to school. I couldn't deal.

Soul's escaping through this hole that is gaping

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.