Who You? Your Name Smaller Than Fine

Jazz Is The Greatest American Art Form And Our Greatest Export. We Don't Pay Attention To The Youth Of Jazz, Don't Stoke The Fires Creatively For The Youth Coming Up. I Feel Like Jazz Musicians Became Too Much Of Purists - With Donald Byrd Doing Funk Jazz In The '70s.

Life Is A Beautiful Struggle.

Why Give You The Cure When The Disease Makes Money?

I Think The Biggest Problem In Our Country Is Mass Incarceration And The Prison-industrial Complex. From The Rockefeller Drug Laws To Stand Your Ground To Stop And Frisk, All These Are Pointing People, Especially And Disproportionately Black And Brown People, Towards The Criminal-justice System. It's Depleting Whole Generations Of People.

By The Time You Get Into Other Kinds Of Music - R&b, Country, Or Whatever - It Becomes Something That's Romantic. It Becomes Something Unattainable. Never-ending Undying Love. And In Hip Hop, We're Still Taking Direct Inspiration.