I Met Mos Def Around That Time

You Make Knowledge Relevant To Life And You Make It Important For Children To Learn Things That Will Really Relate To Things Going On In Their Lives, And Not Abstract.

When You Shine Bright, Some Won't Enjoy The Shadow You Cast.

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.

As Far As My New York Influence, One Thing I'm Proud Of In My Career Is, I Rep Brooklyn, New York All Day. But People Don't Look At My Music As New York Music. People Consider My Music Underground Music.

Let Me Finish My Music, And Let Me Present It The Way I Want To Present It. And Then Share It, Put It Online, Do Whatever You Want To Do After That.