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I think the biggest problem in our country is mass incarceration and the prison-industrial complex. From the Rockefeller drug laws to stand your ground to stop and frisk, all these are pointing people, especially and disproportionately black and brown people, towards the criminal-justice system. It's depleting whole generations of people.

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I think people are into me because of my music choices and my musicality.

I don't care if Rick Ross is 40 years old -- he's a misguided 40-year-old person.

"Art Imitates life," of course, is that phrase by Oscar Wilde. I called that song "Art Imitates Life" because Oh No was in the studio and he actually came up with that hook. When I was trying to figure out a name for the record, it just kind of made sense.

Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.