If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.

There are no problems that can’t be solved. The world is too full of options. If you can’t solve the #problem, it’s because you haven’t found the right option ... But the answer is always there.

I'm from east LA. I don't see colour.

If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off.

Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is, but they actually end up limiting what hip-hop can be.

Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.

You have to have non-traditional ways of collaborating. But better is relative.