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

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

I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the "black people's CNN." Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect.

We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.

Two autumns and I have not changed enough.

You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket.

I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done