The way music reflects real life, the way that painstakingly, over the years, what I have said is really a metaphor for what's happening to America. It used to be about, or tried to be at the very beginning, about what was right. It has stopped being what was right for America; it started being about what was right for companies that are in control.

As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue.

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.

The 'king of hip hop' is always the poster child for capitalism, no matter who it is.

I love the place that I live, but I hate the people in charge.

I jerk off inside books, and give life to words, leaving concepts stuck together you've probably never heard

A lot of individuals I've met that I've done a song or two with. But to be honest I'm not incredibly familiar with the scene. I mean, I'm more familiar with people coming from other countries like Latin-American MCs and African rappers... that type of stuff I'm really starting to get a hold on.