I always preach that you have to be active as a citizen no matter what, and some people just voting as an excuse not to do anything.

I always say that you define what success is to yourself.

Hip-hop is just something I actually know how to do. But I always had aspirations to participate in other forms of music.

I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence

I think there's a lot of the hip-hop crowd behind Barack Obama because he's a black man. Honestly, I'm rooting for Hillary because race is only going to go so far. All the presidents are men at the end of the day.

This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very against the status quo and who questioned and criticized.

360 deals are the new things of the industry. It's not about selling records; it's about selling T-shirts, getting a piece of your publishing, getting a piece of your touring, and all these other kind of properties.