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

I don’t think that early hip hop stood out to be a social critique. A lot of fans of mine think that hip hop’s ultimate responsibility is to critique social structures.

You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.

I see that happening with hip hop purists now. Where you have an artist like a Kendrick [Lamar] or a Drake, who are really trying different things emotionally, different things musically, and on a mainstream level. And you have underground hip hop fans dissing it, for the simple fact that it's mainstream - not because what they're doing is whack, or what they're doing is not sincere.

We send young white boys to the Army. We're sending young black boys to the prisons.

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

The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.