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

They ask me what I'm writing for - I'm writing to show you what we're fighting for.

No one likes to be treated like people in minority communities. What it's saying is that because you're poor, because you live in a neighborhood that deals with oppressed conditions, you deserve to be treated like a criminal. In our Constitution it says you have the right to live without illegal search and seizure.

What's more condescending and corny than someone telling you how much more money they have than you and telling you basically, 'I don't care about poor people,' which is a large part of what you hear of corporate hip-hop on the radio.

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

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.

Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.