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No One Likes To Be Treated Like People In Minority Communities. What It's Saying Is That Because You're Poor, Because You Live In A Neighborhood That Deals With Oppressed Conditions, You Deserve To Be Treated Like A Criminal. In Our Constitution It Says You Have The Right To Live Without Illegal Search And Seizure.

It Doesn't Get Any More Underground, Conscious Or Indie Than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, But Because They Got A Couple Of Really Big Pop Hits, Actually Some Of The Biggest Pop Hits That Hip-hop Has Ever Seen, People Are Missing That Part Of Their Story. People Are Not Counting That Blessing.

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.

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.

I Look At The Deejay Thing As Something - I'm Good At It Because I Have My Own Music. I Have Enough Rhythm To Blend At This Point.