i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking and talking

I think everything has its place. So if the ideas or the fluidity isn't coming in writing, maybe it's related to ingestions.

I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the "black people's CNN." Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect.

only through new words might new worlds be called into order

I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance.

There is no music more powerful than hip-hop. No other music so purely demands an instant affirmative on such a global scale. When the beat drops, people nod their heads, “yes,” in the same way that they would in conversation with a loved one, a parent, professor, or minister.

It's not the rules everywhere, you know? That's not the rules everywhere - that things have to be dumbed down in order to become massively popular. And that hasn't always been the rule, even in America.