We know that those huge U.S. brands do have political sway.

If you're talking about coexisting and tolerance then you have to live by example, and you can't have shiny people all the time everywhere, which is what breeds that sort of thinking - this is better than this, that is better than that.

If it's just politics that's running music, f - k that. I'm out of here! I can't think of anything more boring.

I'd be very controversial if I said why, and I don't do controversial anymore. That's too passé. So last year. Being controversial is boring now.

There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault.

Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.

That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the world stop. The stuff on the street is a lot more interesting.