If you go to a college campus and you do stop and frisk, you're going to find a lot of drugs there too.

You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.

I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET. I'm not, at this point, gunning for like, "Oh, I'm gonna kill them in the first week." But as people slowly discover the album they realize it's better than a lot of what they've been listening to all year.

I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.

Coltrane had a sax, Dale Earnhardt drives a race car and everybody has their tools.

Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?