Hip-hop Is So Much About Character And

I Do Secret Stand-up Shows Around New York. I Announce And Tweet This To Nobody - I Get Onstage And I Do A Quick Five Minutes.

I Grew Up In Somewhat Of A War Zone In West Philadelphia In 1985, '86. It Wasn't As Extreme As Someone Coming In The Classroom And Just Unloading On A Class, But I Knew To Take The Scenic Route To Go To The Grocery Store To Avoid Certain Elements.

What I'm Slowly Realizing Is That I Believe That Most Of Us Felt That We Could Relax A Little Bit After November 2, 2008, Because Of The Progress And The Spirit That It Took To Get Barack Obama In The White House. And What We Didn't Realize, Is That Was Really The Beginning. That Was Really The Beginning Of The Struggle And Not The End Of A Struggle, To Come From Colonial Times Through Slavery, Through The Jim Crowe Laws, Through The Civil Rights Period To The White House As, Like A Point A/point B Journey. Point B Of Course Being The End.

I Prefer To Unwind By Djing. I Learned That From Mike D From The Beastie Boys. After A Show, He Would Dj. Once I Saw That, I Wanted To Do That. And Now Djing Is Like My Lifeline. I Love The Power It Represents.

I Hate Videos. I'm Meticulous On Everything From Cover Art, Fonts, Productions, Mixing. But When It Comes To Videos, I Just Feel So Defeated.