I Gotta Be Dope First. I Gotta

Coltrane Had A Sax, Dale Earnhardt Drives A Race Car And Everybody Has Their Tools.

Being Called A Conscious Rapper Is Quite A Compliment. It's A Great Thing To Be. But As An Artist, My Nature Is To Not Be In A Box.

There Are Staples To My Show. I Have To Be Conscious About Switching Things Up Because I Know People Who Saw Me Last Year Will Say, 'he Did That Last Time.' But If Certain Things Work, They Work.

My Musical Influence Is Really From My Father. He Was A Dj In College. My Parents Met At New York University. So He Listened To, You Know, Motown, And He Listened To Bob Dylan. He Listened To Grateful Dead And Rolling Stones, But He Also Listened To Reggae Music. And He Collected Vinyl.

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.