I want to make a better record than I made the last time. I want to grow. I want to discover new things about myself creatively.

​W​e're so used to having everything we want at our fingertips so I think that when things get tough it's ​difficult ​for people to persist through that.

As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.

It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live.

Hip-hop and R&B are especially fertile bases of collaboration. It always makes good records and good music.

I always felt that rap didn't cause crime; it just reflected it.

Mass incarceration is a policy that's kind of built up over the last four decades and it's destroyed families and communities, and something we need to change. And it's fallen disproportionally on black and brown communities, especially black communities, and it's kind of a manifestation of structural racism.