Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace.

Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it

What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.

There's so much to be found in literature, especially if you don't have the money to travel or the means to get out of your neighborhood or get off work.

she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away

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.

Punk rock meditation, that's what keeps it going. That's how I let go, you know. It's exactly what I do, I blast it and run around crazy banging my head on the wall.