We're just ordinary people. We don't know which way to go.

I feel like spirituality definitely comes through in my music, but I don't make any specific efforts to make it that way.

I just want my music to measure up to. Part of it's just thinking about my place in history and how this music is going to be perceived, if it's listened to 30, 40 years from now.

There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850.

Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something?

I don't really marinate in anybody's album because I don't really want to sound like anybody else when I put my album out. So I'd rather not even be tempted to listen to a bunch of other stuff with any degree of emersion in it, cause I just don't want to sound like anything else, so I kinda focus on my own music.

I was always the front man for what I was doing from when I was 6.