Сommercial hip-hop is not youth rebellion, not when the heroes of hip-hop like Puffy are taking pictures with Donald Trump and the heroes of capitalism - you know that's not rebellion. That's not "the street" - that's Wall Street.

I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that music.

You change the beat up, you might change the way people dance to the music. If you change the way they move, maybe they'll think about it differently.

Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it.

only through new words might new worlds be called into order

Your library teacher would say, "What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics?" Me, I'm not your library teacher. But I have some of the same questions and concerns, you know?

I can't say that I always want to get out of bed, you know.