Reagan's neglect of the inner city is responsible for hiphop. Hiphop is created thanks to the conditions that crack set: easy money but a lot of work, the violence involved, the stories it produced. Crack helped birth hiphop.

Meaninglessness takes hold because meaninglessness is addictive.

I never want to get to that level of poverty where taking a bath has to be a hot-pot experience.

Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.

I hate videos. I'm meticulous on everything from cover art, fonts, productions, mixing. But when it comes to videos, I just feel so defeated.

Part of me would just like to relax and have one job that pays me the amount I need to survive. And another part of me wants the creativity that comes out of struggle and frustration and fear. It's a never-ending cycle, which must be how I want it, on some level.

Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.