Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.

I'm learning from them! Everyone says that, but it's true. You learn more about yourself from them than from any other lesson.

[The Land] is a film that just happens to be directed and written by a Puerto Rican guy with a black dad. It seemed like a very natural, human interaction between people who all just came from one common cesspool of bad luck.

Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.

[Riccardo Tisci ] has an interesting approach to weaving the contemporary with the couture, and blending tribes and collections. It always seems to work.

If you make a decision, a pact with someone, your friend, you should say, 'I'm gonna do this,' and you should stick to it.