Let Me Finish My Music, And Let

When I Look At The Arc Of My Career, My Focus Is On Lyricism, Right? I Own That.

So I Just Had To Step Up How I Was Doing It And The Moment That I Stepped Up And The Moment I Focused All My Energy On That Is When Things Started To Happen. So There's A Direct Relationship Between My Inspiration And My Output.

When I Was A Teenager, The Way Some Of These Kids Out Here Be Actively Gay, It Would Have Been Ridiculed In The Hood. And Now The Hood Is A Bit More Accepting. Begrudgingly Accepting, But Definitely More Accepting Than 20 Years Ago When I Was A Little Kid. That Doesn't Mean That Anybody Should Stop Fighting For Equality Just Because People Are Begrudgingly A Little More Accepting.

You Know, There's A Lot Of Activism That Doesn't Deal With Empowerment, And You Have To Empower Yourself In Order To Be Relevant To Any Type Of Struggle.

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.