It's An Artist's Duty To Reflect The

A Just Society Is Not One Built On Fear Or Repression Or Vengeance Or Exclusion, But One Built On Love. Love For Our Families. Love For Our Neighbors. Love For The Least Among Us. Love For Those Who Look Different Or Worship Differently. Love For Those We Don't Even Know.

Hip-hop And R&b Are Especially Fertile Bases Of Collaboration. It Always Makes Good Records And Good Music.

There's So Much Music Out There, And So Many Different Styles That I've Been Influenced By, So Each Album Reflects Some Of That Knowledge Or Influence That I've Had.

I Don't Get To Listen To Music For Fun Very Often; A Lot Of What I'm Hearing Is For Work And Isn't Released Yet.

We Have A Serious Problem With Incarceration In This Country. It's Destroying Families, It's Destroying Communities And We're The Most Incarcerated Country In The World, And When You Look Deeper And Look At The Reasons We Got To This Place, We As A Society Made Some Choices Politically And Legislatively, Culturally To Deal With Poverty, Deal With Mental Illness In A Certain Way And That Way Usually Involves Using Incarceration.