If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.

It's crazy when you see very little reflection between what's played on the radio and what people are talking about in the streets. It lets you know how far off we are from a real movement.

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.

I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much.

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.

Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions... and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.

this is her body this is her blood