I Was Once That Little Boy Terrified

What I've Learned Is Not To Take Anybody's Advice. If You Rely Solely On Your Fans, It Sets You Up For The Downfall On The Industry Side And If You Rely On What Your Label Is Saying, It Will Disconnect You From Your Fans.

In Chicago, You Have An Absence Of Strong Family Units, And That Absence Gets Filled By Gangs. You Have A Failure In The School System, After-school Programs And Other Social Programs To Help Keep Kids Off The Streets. Amnesty International Speaks To That In Some Way, By Keeping These Issues In The Forefront.

You Need To Think About The System That You Live In And The Comforts That You Have. But The Comforts That You Have That Are Causing The Discomforts Of A Massive Amount Of People Around The World.

People Have Their Morals, But Morals Aren't Concrete. People Think Because I'm A Muslim That I Pray Five Times A Day, But You're Never Going To See That On A Day-to-day Basis. People Fluctuate. To Me, That Was The Most Specific Way To Put It, The Best Way To Be Like, "i Listen To This Music, But It's The Most Violent Music On The Planet." But I Like It, And To Make Up For It, I Don't Say The Cuss Words. That's How I Get Away With It.

We Have To Make The Physical Music A Little More Valuable Instead Of Just Having A Download Link And A Bunch Of Songs You Downloaded From Some Torrent Site. People Try To Make The Music Value-less, And I Don't Think We're Going To Stop That Train, But The One Thing That They Can't Devalue Are Things That Are In The Outside World.