Making Your Moves, Paying Your Dues, Chasing

The Murder Rate In Chicago Is Skyrocketing, And You See Who's Doing It And Perpetrating It - They All Look Like Chief Keef. When It Comes To The Point That, You Know, That Kids Who Are Doing The Killings, And They're Kids 13 To 19 Years Old, And You Can Replicate That In New Orleans, You Can Replicate That In Oakland. All The Kids Look The Same.

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.

To Me, You Can't Win. You Can't Win. There's A War In Iraq; There's No Way That They're Ending That. The War In Afghanistan Is Still Going On. There's No Way That's Going To End Anytime Soon. You Can Complain About It, You Can Throw Rocks At It, But You Really Have To Come To The Conclusion That This Is A Really Twisted Place Sometimes And Some Stuff You're Not Going To Win.

I Love Jazz. So To Me, There Are Two Main Types Of Jazz. There's Dancing Jazz, And Then There's Listening Jazz. Listening Jazz Is Like Thelonius Monk Or John Coltrane, Where It's A Listening Experience. So That's What I Like; I Like To Make Stuff That You Listen To. It's Not Really Meant To Get You Up; It's Meant To Get Your Mind Focused. That's Why You Sit And Listen To Jazz. You Dance To Big Band Or Whatever, But For The Most Part, You Sit And Listen To Jazz. I Think It Comes From That Aesthetic, Trying To Take That Jazz Listening Experience And Put It On Hip-hop.

I Think You Have To Ask Yourself Does Voting Work On The Level That You Are Trying To Effectuate Change; That Is The Conversation You Must Have.