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

Most rappers are black men. If you're a black man, you owe something to the community that you came from. If you're rapping about the community that you came from, and you're romanticizing parts of it for the entertainment of people who don't look like you, you certainly owe something to the community.

I can't expect rappers to be politicized when Americans are not socially motivated enough to care about their own lives and public policy as much as they were even 20 years ago. But I'm compelled to make the music I make regardless.

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

I would just encourage everybody to just talk your opinion more, allow other people and fight for other people to [express theirs].

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

When you talking about funk music you just talking about a collage of a lot of different types of music. They used strings, they had brass, they had vocalist.