I'm only in competition with my last level. It don't have nothing to do with music or anything. And the last level is hard competition, the last place you were.

I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is

I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.

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

I relate to that - he inspires me across the board. His music inspires me and reminds me to maintain honesty in the things that I do, to have an absence of fear. Listening to Earl Sweatshirt's music is like therapy to me.

Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.

I have an organization called BLIND [Beautiful Love Incorporated Nonprofit Development], so named because even though my interest is in the black community, because that's where I grew up and that's where I'm most skilled in fixing things, it doesn't end there.