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

The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence

Some rather seek up high Than dig and grind that inner truth

It was always important to me to be that kid who could rock the party as well as rock the English professor's mind.

Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.

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