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

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

Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries.

If you're just addressing your own emotions and challenging yourself to find some sort of harmonious sense of being in life and questioning authority and questioning what's given and questioning what's expected of you, you're already on the cusp of finding something in yourself, and maybe waking something in somebody else.

I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.

I hear the weed is really strong in California.

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.