Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to act in the future.

You can’t stop a revolution from breathin’, so to beat ‘em they offer people the illusion of freedom.

Changing the course of destiny, so I'm strapped with weaponry cause the government don't give a f-k about protecting me.

I'm not trying to sell pipe dreams to people. I'm not giving them some fake utopia. I'm not telling them it's easy. If it was easy, everyone would do it. But you don't fight the fights you can win, you fight the fights that need fighting. That's the most important part.

Some artists think every woman is a groupie, and that every dude is a sucker, and I never looked at people like that.

Read between the lines and free your mind

I would say that everyone that you see who is successful in the mainstream, at the top of Billboard, who has a Top 40 hit... at some point, unless they're a complete fabrication of the industry with no identity of their own and a carbon copy clone of someone else, they in themselves started out being underground.