I want to be necessary and do good works. I ain't here to waste nobody's time, because I don't want you to waste mine.

That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.

I want to be necessary and do good works. I ain't here to waste nobody's time, because I don't want you to waste mine.

Hip-Hop went from selling crack to smoking it

I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time. The people who are in charge of what people see or hear are afraid. What you hear on top 40 or what you see on BET or MTV is not a fair representation of what is really going on...

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

So rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that's coming out today, people are just, they've got it on as background music. It's kind of the same way the cabdrivers use music; it's very disposable. But, that doesn't mean there aren't a great number of artists who are doing things to change that.