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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.

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Unfortunately Hip-hop Is So Competitive That In Order For Fringe Groups To Get In, You Gotta Be Better Than Whoever's The Best. So Before Eminem, The Idea That There Would Be A White Rapper That Anybody Would Really Check For Was Fantastic Or Amazing Or Impossible.

I Think The Biggest Problem In Our Country Is Mass Incarceration And The Prison-industrial Complex. From The Rockefeller Drug Laws To Stand Your Ground To Stop And Frisk, All These Are Pointing People, Especially And Disproportionately Black And Brown People, Towards The Criminal-justice System. It's Depleting Whole Generations Of People.

Hip Hop Is At Its Essence A Folk Music, Because It Speaks The Language That People Are Still Speaking At Ground Zero, It Speaks The Language That People Speak On The Streets.