One of the things about powerful people is they have the ability to make it look easy.

Being in the military just lets you know how helpless you are. You could train forever but you're still at the mercy of someone in the Pentagon, or somebody in the rear moving you around like a chess piece.

Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about.

I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.

I'm pretty open book, I'm also the kind of person that will say, 'That's none of your business,' too.

I didn't start off with the responsibility because I didn't think anybody would care. But as you do meet these people influenced by your music, then you start to understand you have a responsibility. I don't think you initially know it until you feel the power of what you're really doing.

There's a point where a cop pulls you out of that car and starts abusing you or beating on you and at that moment he is no longer within the law.