As an artist, that's our job - to be with you in times of celebration and when the world is kicking your ass.

I learned to fly planes at fifteen years old because one of my teachers thought I'd be a better pilot than rapper.

The futile and exhausting existence of a purgatory-like law enforcement system.

I have searched all night and day for new and better words that could express my feelings and fear for the people of this country. I found no new words. I only have no hope-filled insight to deliver. I only have this warning to all Americans: Whatever this country is willing to do to the least of us, it will one day do to us all.

With each new album: I need to kill the last version of me.

Being a black rapper is like being a Southern, socialite woman: You're always worried about appearances.

Being an adult, you've already suffered enough from your own mistakes, and the world, to come to this as a humble human being. So it's not like, "I'm going to do the right thing because it advances me," as much as it's like, "I'm going to do the right thing because this puts me closest to the dream I had as a 10-year-old kid."