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There Are Still Songs That I'm Writing. I Like To Write. I Like To Take A Long Time To Do My Songs, Not Even The Actual Writing Process, But Conceptualizing, Getting Into The Songs. That's Why I Stopped Doing Mixtapes.

Your Child’s Future Was The First To Go With Budget Cuts.

I Grew Up In The 'hood Around Prostitutes, Drug Dealers, Killers, And Gangbangers, But I Also Grew Up Juxtaposed: On The Doorknob Outside Of Our Apartment, There Was Blood From Some Guy Who Got Shot; But Inside, There Was National Geographic Magazines And Encyclopedias And A Little Library Bookshelf Situation.

I Look At People Like Picasso And Da Vinci And Escher And Miles Davis, And They'll Write Or Paint That One Definitive Masterpiece Of Maybe 50 That They Have That's Really Trying To Go Outside The Box, Trying To Do Something That's Tough. And Then When You Accomplish It, You Look Back And Go, 'yeeaaaah - Masterpiece.'

In Chicago, You Have An Absence Of Strong Family Units, And That Absence Gets Filled By Gangs. You Have A Failure In The School System, After-school Programs And Other Social Programs To Help Keep Kids Off The Streets. Amnesty International Speaks To That In Some Way, By Keeping These Issues In The Forefront.