It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing.

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

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.

My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.

It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.