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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.

And You Know, Art As Commerce, Doesn't Really Make Too Much Sense, They Don't Go Together.

Artists Make Art For Themselves. Art Is An Honest Expression. Artists Who Pander To Their Fans By Trying To Make Music "for" Their Fans Make Empty, Transparent Art. The True Fan Does Not Want You To Make Music For Them, They Want You To Make Music For You, Because That's The Whole Reason They Fell In Love With You In The First Place.

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

I Think Its Man's Nature To Go To War And Fight.