I Started Rapping Because I Wanted People

We Get High On All Types Of Drugs When, All You Really Need Is Love

I Don’t Think That Early Hip Hop Stood Out To Be A Social Critique. A Lot Of Fans Of Mine Think That Hip Hop’s Ultimate Responsibility Is To Critique Social Structures.

If You Look At My Career, Doing Albums With Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane And Lil Wayne Or Krs-one And Jean Grae, I Can't Be Pigeonholed.

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.