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

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

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.

Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it

I think that the heart is a lot like those wonderful fruit, like coconut and mangoes, you know, you have to break the skin, you have to break it open to get to the good part.

i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking and talking

Honestly, I don't always want to get up in the mornings, but I do anyway.