The thing I've been talking about with daughter is the idea of - and I'm talking about essentially in America - the possibility of, a lost generation. I've been listening to a lot of music - as a fan, as a critic, as somebody who likes to dance - but I hear, you know, within these songs and half the people I hear, these philosophies encoded and embedded in these songs.

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.

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

I'm usually trying to get back into the dream or analyzing the dream. And yeah, the days, most days begin like that.

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

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

Vulnerability is power.