You ain't got to change the whole world. You just alter it a little bit and you redefine it into something beautiful.

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

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

The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core.

It feels good, you know. It feels like you're out there, you know, doin' your own thing, know what I'm sayin'? It's like, people can't really compare it to anything, and that kinda feels good. It opens me up to a lot of different arenas, a lot of different type of situations, you know like Tony Hawk will call. You know what I'm sayin'? I can just image if my songs was about shootin' up, and like sellin' cocaine, I doubt Tony Hawk would be callin' you know?

When you start creating opinion, and you start creating difference of opinion, you're doing something. People are actually sitting down and critiquing. A lot of the stuff people hate, they really don't. They only look at the outer shell. They don't really get into it.

I got into skateboarding when I was like a shorty. It was a toy thing.