I like his consistency, because Bernie Sanders talk - it boils down to the American people. His one thing is the American people.

I like his consistency, because Bernie Sanders talk - it boils down to the American people. His one thing is the American people.

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

I would rather have a candidate that`s cohesive in bringing people together from different ethnic backgrounds but around the same policy than I would a politician that jumps and stumps in different rooms and has a different story every time.

People tend to think of gentrification in terms of race because it's presented that way, and I think it's presented that way because in poor cities that's what's really going on. Beyond that, I think it's presented that way as a way for the people who are really pushing it to make it just a black problem, so people don't care.

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

I don't think I'm more politically-based as much as socially-based. My grandmother died on February 29th, and she kept all of my magazine and newspaper scraps, every interview. I've been in the newspapers since I was about 15 - not for rapping, but for real substantive stuff I was doing in the community, organizing around gang violence in the schools. So I had already made my grandma proud before I was on TV. I've always been who I am.