If 'Life in Marvelous Times' can't get on the radio, then I don't need to be on the radio.

I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this.

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

I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.

I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.

I believe the projects were a social experiment; we were laboratory rats stacked on top of each other, and people just knew, inherently, that there was something wrong. There's not a lot of regard for the property by the residents.