I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control.

Besides, isn't it more exciting when you don't have permission?

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

Everything I think seems to be controversial, so I feel like I need to just go away for a second and put it all down on paper until the storm passes.

I think people were genuinely addicted to hip hop in the 90s, addicted to the idea of empowerment. I think it came from [the fact that] the rappers in the 90s, their parents coming from the 70s, had such a rich variety of records to sample.

That divide between the rich and poor is so crazy, because even white kids are suffering now.

If you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from.