As An Artist, I Have To Be

I Just Got A New Manager. He's Like, "so What Do You Want To Do With The Deejay Thing?" I'm Like, "the Deejay Thing For Me Is More My Hobby." It's Great When You Can Supplement Your Income, When You Have A Weekly Or Something, It's Fun. It's Really A Hobby, Because I Don't Want It To Take Away From What I Do, Which Is Emceeing.

When I Was A Teenager, The Way Some Of These Kids Out Here Be Actively Gay, It Would Have Been Ridiculed In The Hood. And Now The Hood Is A Bit More Accepting. Begrudgingly Accepting, But Definitely More Accepting Than 20 Years Ago When I Was A Little Kid. That Doesn't Mean That Anybody Should Stop Fighting For Equality Just Because People Are Begrudgingly A Little More Accepting.

Hip Hop Has Always Been, For Us, For Artists Who Are Pure To The Craft - Any Place Overseas, Whether It's Australia, Any Place In Asia, Germany, Africa, It Becomes Something Where You Can Still Go And Work. Hip Hop Is An Import Culture. We're Spoiled By It Here. It's Homegrown.

So I Just Had To Step Up How I Was Doing It And The Moment That I Stepped Up And The Moment I Focused All My Energy On That Is When Things Started To Happen. So There's A Direct Relationship Between My Inspiration And My Output.

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.