You Have To Know When To Be

These Niggaz Ain't Thugs, The Real Thugs Is The Government. Don't Matter If You Independent, Democrat Or Republican, Niggaz Politickin' The Street, Get Into Beef, Start Blastin'...now A New Cat Is Executive Chief.

Even An Independent Label Is Looking For A Hit, They're Not Looking For A Record That's Not Gonna Do Well.

By The Time You Get Into Other Kinds Of Music - R&b, Country, Or Whatever - It Becomes Something That's Romantic. It Becomes Something Unattainable. Never-ending Undying Love. And In Hip Hop, We're Still Taking Direct Inspiration.

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.

Just Because No One Can Understand How You Speak, Don't Necessarily Mean That What You Be Sayin Is Deep.