Your child’s future was the first to go with budget cuts.

I love jazz. So to me, there are two main types of jazz. There's dancing jazz, and then there's listening jazz. Listening jazz is like Thelonius Monk or John Coltrane, where it's a listening experience. So that's what I like; I like to make stuff that you listen to. It's not really meant to get you up; it's meant to get your mind focused. That's why you sit and listen to jazz. You dance to big band or whatever, but for the most part, you sit and listen to jazz. I think it comes from that aesthetic, trying to take that jazz listening experience and put it on hip-hop.

Just be yourself and one day you will find someone who loves you for everything you are, flaws or no flaws.

You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan.

I don't like to hear myself sing. So to get comfortable hearing myself sing, I sang in another accent.

I went from MC to being MS, this microphone controller is the motivational speaker.

With 'Hip-Hop Saved My Life,' I attempted to make 'Kick, Push,' but for rappers. To give a real basic play-by-play of the life of a rapper before he makes it - if he ever makes it, because you can get stuck in that and be trying to make it for the rest of your life.