Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz.

My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around.

I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.

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.

With Prisoner of Conscience, the focus was - I've worked with Madlib, High Tech, Kanye West, J Dilla. I feel like I've worked with some of the greatest of all time. That's been overlooked. That's been overshadowed by the weight of the lyrics.

I was always rhyming and doing it for the love before I found out I was gonna have children and when I found out, doing it for the love wasn't enough.

But there's so many things in life like women, like children, like God and family that transcends the world of hip-hop.