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.

the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle

We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.

I'm a very sensitive person at times. Not just to words that anybody says, but in relationships for example, the people that you open up to, you listen to, you hear - you know? So a lot of times, the key to some of my vulnerability is just through things, simple things - or critiques or whatever - or could be very simple things that are said.

The wind is the moon's imagination wandering.

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

I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much.