A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.

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 think music sharing of any kind is great.

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

Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build

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

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.