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

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

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

she kissed as if she, alone, could forge the signature of the sun

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.

i laced my shoes with sorrow and walked a weary road dead end streets don't come undone with double knots wing tipped shoes that walk on air through vacant lots

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.