A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.

You change the beat up, you might change the way people dance to the music. If you change the way they move, maybe they'll think about it differently.

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.

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.

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

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

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.