I guess something that you love to do, you gotta ease up off it and give it a little space, come back and be fresh to it.

In the early '90s, when I really started to find my voice, I was reading a lot of books, and I was moved by the writers, like Chinua Achebe, and I wanted to be able to write rhymes that were as potent as what I was reading.

Restlessness is my nemesis. It's hard to just chill and sit still.

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.

You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it’s vital that a change happens now.

They say that when a man faces his destiny, the destiny ends and he becomes the man that he really is.

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