Now people won't beat you up if you are gay; they might just talk behind your back.

The way I see it, if people truly love my music, they will support me in some way down the road.

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

When you have a voice and a platform and you know better, it becomes your moral obligation to support that community. And by extension, you're supporting your family.

Life without knowledge is death in disguise.

Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.

If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.