It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have been swept under the rug, whether it be with the native Americans or slavery, or whatever holocaust that's happened on this soil.

When an artist becomes complacent, he dies.

When I think about 1999, I think about being a 19-year-old kid, and I think about my attitude and behavior just toward women with respect objectifying them.

When I walk home at night I don't have to worry about anything. But when a woman walks home at night she gotta think about a lot of different things.

If I can use my platform to affect change in gender, as I can in race, then I think I can have an impact.

I never examined my role in male culture, in hyper masculinity. I never examined it, nobody ever called me on it.

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate.