I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.

May the optimism of tomorrow be your foundation for today.

I want people to be like, 'Your album's just as good as Kendrick [Lamar]'s or Esperanza Spalding or Beck. I work just as hard as them.

The first thing that's important is to really have people believe in you. If you have that, you can do anything.

I just wanna affect the culture and wanna be able to support young people with goals that aren't just limited to rapping and producing.

One thing Jay z told me that always sticks with me, is that, the album is never how you viewed it to be.

Charles is Charles. Wale is Wale. It's two separate entities that have nothing to do with each other and probably will never have anything to do with each other and I wish him the best.