Life Is A Beautiful Struggle.

When You Have A Voice And A Platform And You Know Better, It Becomes Your Moral Obligation To Support That Community. And By Extension, You're Supporting Your Family.

If You Go To A College Campus And You Do Stop And Frisk, You're Going To Find A Lot Of Drugs There Too.

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.

I'm Spinning Records And I Look Across The Restaurant And I See Somebody Who Looks Asian. And I'm Like, "yo, That Looks Like Yoko Ono." I'm Like, Oh, I Can Just Meet - That's Going To Be Great. Then I Look Carefully And I'm Like, "that's Not Yoko Ono, That's Bruno Mars." And It Was Bruno Mars. That Just Happened Recently. I Was Bugging Out. Because That Was Totally Not Yoko Ono At All.

"art Imitates Life," Of Course, Is That Phrase By Oscar Wilde. I Called That Song "art Imitates Life" Because Oh No Was In The Studio And He Actually Came Up With That Hook. When I Was Trying To Figure Out A Name For The Record, It Just Kind Of Made Sense.