We send young white boys to the Army. We're sending young black boys to the prisons.
Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.
Now people won't beat you up if you are gay; they might just talk behind your back.
The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.
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.
People didn't really take white rappers seriously until Eminem, because he was better than everybody. Like female emcees, you need to be like Lauryn Hill or Nicki Minaj or killing everything before somebody takes you seriously.