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I Think Once You're In The Public Eye, Whether You're A Boss, A Teacher Or Whatever You Do, That You're Automatically In The Position Of Role Model. You Have People Looking Up To You, So Whether You Choose To Accept It Or Not Is A Different Question.

My Parents Are My Biggest Influences. My Parents And My City. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, The Community I Grew Up. I Don't Feel Like I'm Special In That. I Feel Like That's Everybody.

But Rawkus Is Integral To What I Do, Because The Cats Who Started Rawkus Are The First Ones Who Really Saw My Vision, And Gave Me A Platform To Get It Out There, So I'm Definitely Totally Grateful For That.

What Else Is Stop And Frisk? These Neighborhoods Are Unsafe Not Because There's Not Enough Cops Illegally Frisking People. They're Not Safe Because Of Economic Conditions. They're Not Safe Because Of All Types Of Things In The Government That People Like Mike Bloomberg And Ray Kelly Should Be Looking To Fix Instead Of Randomly Searching Kids In The Hood. If You Go To A College Campus And You Do Stop And Frisk, You're Going To Find A Lot Of Drugs There, Too.

Being Called A Conscious Rapper Is Quite A Compliment. It's A Great Thing To Be. But As An Artist, My Nature Is To Not Be In A Box.