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

As entertainers, you're afraid [about] loss of income - but if other people start going to jail for free speech, then we've lost this great thing that America is, and I'd like to keep that.

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

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 say is that kids know about Bernie Sanders and they`re off the radar.In the same way kids knew about Twitter before their parents did.

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

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.