I keep moving through time and time keeps moving through me. And through that process, life takes shape. The question is what shape it is. I'm not the first person to ask that question, or to see how absurd it is to think there's a real answer. Maybe life's a circle.
QuestloveTo be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.
QuestloveI love traveling the States no matter what. I love traveling abroad, going to Japan and Australia. I love it. I never get tired of it.
QuestloveAfter 2001, everyone in the Soulquarians blew up, which wasn't expected. We all got the success, and then everybody froze.
QuestloveResistance here doesn't mean revolution. It doesn't mean storming the barricades. Resistance means using art for the things that it does best, which is to create human portraits and communicate ideas and forge a climate where people of different races or classes are known to you because they make themselves known. In the simplest terms, art humanizes. It opens the circuit of empathy. And once that process happens, it's that much harder to think of people as part of a policy or a statistic. Art reverses the alienation that can creep into society.
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