Now my record deal helps me to do things for free or give more time to my community than I could otherwise.

I'm a product of its [american] teaching, of its thinking, of its -isms, of its religion, of its education. I am conditioned, raised and developed by America; I am America. And as it changes, my thoughts also change. Because no matter what I believe, what the powers-that-be believe will affect me.

Even if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can't do that. I don't create way.

Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.

What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.

I think giving is a blind act that should come from a part of me that sees no discrimination (that's why I called it "blind").

I have an apartment in Brooklyn - I guess I call it my shrine. I go there to create and recoup, or hibernate sometimes, but my home is in Dallas where I live with my children.