Hip-hop is such a wide statement of culture that everyone is not the same, and it's impossible to put it into one box.

I read "The Yoga Sutras" every day.And also the "The Bhagavad Gita." Those two books sit by my bed.

You've got to put your head down and do the work. There are no shortcuts.

Antisemitism is just another form of racism. It's the same sickness, whether it's about Christians, about Islamophobia, which is horrible. It's all wrong. It's all the same.

I'm lucky that I have a platform that I can answer my own questions.

Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.

That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.