There just needs to be a gay rapper who's better than everybody. That's when that question will no longer be able to be asked.

I feel like your city - with hip hop in particular, because we're always beating our chest and shouting where we're from - your city is just as influential as your parents. Even the grimy, hardcore gangster rap from New York - KRS-One and Wu Tang, the stuff acknowledges it.

Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.