If You Look At My Career, Doing

The Only Way For Me To Be An Artist Is To Be Honest In My Craft. If I Veer From That, I'm Not Giving The Investors What They Want. Sometimes It's My Job As An Artist To Know What I Want To Do, Even When The Fans Tell Me Different.

We're In An Illusion About What Our Role Is In World Politics And Foreign Affairs, And Our Policies Are Killing And Destroying And Doing A Lot Of Things That We Are Not Aware Of.

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.

Being Called A Conscious Rapper Is Quite A Compliment. It's A Great Thing To Be. But As An Artist, My Nature Is To Not Be In A Box.

Hip Hop Has Always Been, For Us, For Artists Who Are Pure To The Craft - Any Place Overseas, Whether It's Australia, Any Place In Asia, Germany, Africa, It Becomes Something Where You Can Still Go And Work. Hip Hop Is An Import Culture. We're Spoiled By It Here. It's Homegrown.