Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.

I'm usually trying to get back into the dream or analyzing the dream. And yeah, the days, most days begin like that.

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.

There is a lot of fun to be had when you try and fit as many words as you can within a three-minute song, but there is also a lot of fun in trying to get that message across in three words, or better yet when the music can overpower the words and convey something really pure and perfect that affects our psycho-emotional space.

Half of the popcorn sh-t that's out there, we know it's popcorn. But we're like, "It's my guilty pleasure." I feel like we have more guilty pleasure than actual f - kin' pleasure.

I think everybody on this planet does that - trying to capture your dream after you wake up.