Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.
I just want to give the people 100% of myself as an artist.
I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.
I write to the beat and let life play the guitar strings
The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.
Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is a such an intrinsical part of hip-hop music.