I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.

I'm blacked than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle

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.

Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

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.

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