When a poem might become a song, then certain parts are repeated and might become a refrain or a chorus, so they change in that way. But it's more the nature of the words and what they're saying that determines whether it's a poem or a song.

I've always felt profoundly about what's going on in the world on a daily basis. What I hadn't felt was that I was at a point in my writing career where I could write about these things in songs and do it well.

My mom is a sculptress.

I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.

The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.

What Rare [albom] allows me to do is gonna show people other things that I'm capable of 'cause they really haven't heard a lot of things outside of the rap stuff that I do.

I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.