It’s Very Seductive To Focus On What

Hip Hop Is At Its Essence A Folk Music, Because It Speaks The Language That People Are Still Speaking At Ground Zero, It Speaks The Language That People Speak On The Streets.

If I Focus On Being An Activist And My Job Is To Be A Rapper, I'm Not Going To Be As Good Of A Rapper. I Need To Focus On Hip-hop And Focus On Making The Music, So That When The Activists Come To Me And They Need My Voice To Create A Platform, Then I've Got Enough People Listening To Me. Not Because I'm Conscious, But Because I'm Dope.

I Try To Count The Blessings Rather Than The Problems.

My Fans Like To Be Romantic. I Feel Like I'm Creating At Least At The Same Level Or Even A Higher Level Of Creativity Than I Was At Twenty-one. I've Gotten Better As An Artist.

If You Go To A College Campus And You Do Stop And Frisk, You're Going To Find A Lot Of Drugs There Too.