When I finally decide that I'm ready to get out of bed, it could be the sunlight, it could be the fact that I'm awake, and, OK, first of all, I wake up in the morning because I have to go to the bathroom.

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

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

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

I've never believed it's really so important that you conform to the ways of the system in order to beat the system. I think that the system follows a great deal.

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

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry