I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done

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

I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.

Fax me a fact, and I'll telegram a hologram.

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

I keep trying to forget, but I must remember. And gather the scattered continents of a self, once whole. Before they plant flags and boundary my destiny. Push down the watered mountains that blemish this soiled soul before the valleys of my conscience get the best of me. I'll need a passport just to simply reach the rest of me. A vaccination for a lesser god's bleak history.

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