Even An Independent Label Is Looking For

Just Because Someone Has Great Content Doesn't Mean You Like Them As A Rapper.

So I Just Had To Step Up How I Was Doing It And The Moment That I Stepped Up And The Moment I Focused All My Energy On That Is When Things Started To Happen. So There's A Direct Relationship Between My Inspiration And My Output.

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.

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.

And You Know, Art As Commerce, Doesn't Really Make Too Much Sense, They Don't Go Together.