When I Write, It's Intimate. I Write

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

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 Know What Tablas Sound Like, Because My Father Played A Lot Of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

Before My Father Would Open Up A Karate School In A Particular Neighborhood, He'd Clean Up The Block - Kick All The Drug Dealers And Gang Bangers Off The Block. My Father Was Very Clear: 'i've Got Guns Too, And I'll Kill You Just As Much As A Rival Gang Would.' And He Meant It. He Was A Man Of Many Facets And Complexities.

You Would Never Know If You Could Ever Be, If You Never Try, You Would Never See.