What I'm slowly realizing is that I believe that most of us felt that we could relax a little bit after November 2, 2008, because of the progress and the spirit that it took to get Barack Obama in The White House. And what we didn't realize, is that was really the beginning. That was really the beginning of the struggle and not the end of a struggle, to come from colonial times through slavery, through the Jim Crowe Laws, through the civil rights period to The White House as, like a point A/point B journey. Point B of course being the end.

In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what's coming out.

My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.

When you first start off, you see what other people have and quietly say, "I want that."

Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time.

There's no such thing as success on an isolated 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.