When You Live Your Life Through Records,

Resistance Here Doesn't Mean Revolution. It Doesn't Mean Storming The Barricades. Resistance Means Using Art For The Things That It Does Best, Which Is To Create Human Portraits And Communicate Ideas And Forge A Climate Where People Of Different Races Or Classes Are Known To You Because They Make Themselves Known. In The Simplest Terms, Art Humanizes. It Opens The Circuit Of Empathy. And Once That Process Happens, It's That Much Harder To Think Of People As Part Of A Policy Or A Statistic. Art Reverses The Alienation That Can Creep Into Society.

I Hate Holidays Because It's The Quietest; It's The Most Deafening Sound In My Apartment.

Hip-hop Is Such A Disposable Art Form From A Business Standpoint. It Never Treats Its Artists As Art; It Never Treats Its Product As Art.

I Cannot Keep A Girlfriend Longer Than Seven Months. I Have 12 Jobs. I Don't Have Time For My Personal Life. I'm Fully Aware That This Is The Sacrifice.

The President Is Just The Coach Of A Football Team. You Need The Right Support, The Right Stadium, The Right Players, The Right Staff. An Excellent Coach Is Not Going To Win Games.