In hip hop no one cares. No one stands up for it and it's a mess. We need order so we can all follow the tradition of where we came from. We need to keep referring to the pioneers.

I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

I've been lucky enough to reach a place where I can speak what's in my heart, and people know that it comes from a real place; I don't have to worry about doing what someone's not doing - I can do me.

And the stuff that I write, is even tougher than dykes.

Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

Turnin' nothin' into somethin' is God work, and you get nothin' without struggle and hard work

There's not one person in the world that's not a living, walking contradiction.