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It Doesn't Get Any More Underground, Conscious Or Indie Than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, But Because They Got A Couple Of Really Big Pop Hits, Actually Some Of The Biggest Pop Hits That Hip-hop Has Ever Seen, People Are Missing That Part Of Their Story. People Are Not Counting That Blessing.

We Send Young White Boys To The Army. We're Sending Young Black Boys To The Prisons.

Even An Independent Label Is Looking For A Hit, They're Not Looking For A Record That's Not Gonna Do Well.

I Just Got A New Manager. He's Like, "so What Do You Want To Do With The Deejay Thing?" I'm Like, "the Deejay Thing For Me Is More My Hobby." It's Great When You Can Supplement Your Income, When You Have A Weekly Or Something, It's Fun. It's Really A Hobby, Because I Don't Want It To Take Away From What I Do, Which Is Emceeing.

If I Focus On Being An Activist And My Job Is To Be A Rapper, I'm Not Going To Be As Good Of A Rapper. I Need To Focus On Hip-hop And Focus On Making The Music, So That When The Activists Come To Me And They Need My Voice To Create A Platform, Then I've Got Enough People Listening To Me. Not Because I'm Conscious, But Because I'm Dope.