To be honest, that whole exchange with Crunk Feminist actually made me write the song because I realize there's a lot of young women out there so hurt by the misogynistic images in hip-hop they paint it with such a broad brush stroke that they think anybody that defends hip-hop is defending misogyny.

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

I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.

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.

Just because someone has great content doesn't mean you like them as a rapper.

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

And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.