Your library teacher would say, "What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics?" Me, I'm not your library teacher. But I have some of the same questions and concerns, you know?

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

Your library teacher would say, "What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics?" Me, I'm not your library teacher. But I have some of the same questions and concerns, you know?

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

What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful; it reaches so many people.

The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.

I think that the heart is a lot like those wonderful fruit, like coconut and mangoes, you know, you have to break the skin, you have to break it open to get to the good part.