Hip-hop Is The Last True Folk Art.

I'm Just An Artist And I'm Doin' What I Like To Do.

In The Early '90s, When I Really Started To Find My Voice, I Was Reading A Lot Of Books, And I Was Moved By The Writers, Like Chinua Achebe, And I Wanted To Be Able To Write Rhymes That Were As Potent As What I Was Reading.

So Rather Than Really Have, Like A Close Relationship To Anything That's Coming Out Today, People Are Just, They've Got It On As Background Music. It's Kind Of The Same Way The Cabdrivers Use Music; It's Very Disposable. But, That Doesn't Mean There Aren't A Great Number Of Artists Who Are Doing Things To Change That.

Hip-hop Is A Beautiful Culture. It's Inspirational, Because It's A Culture Of Survivors. You Can Create Beauty Out Of Nothingness.

I'm An Independent Thinker. And I'm Not The Poster Child For Any Movement. I'm Trying To Support Whatever's Right No Matter Where It Is.