Taylor Swift is just dope. She is an ill songwriter.
When you make stuff from the 'you' point of view, you really can't go wrong.
I never really liked the idea of rap being a competitive thing. It's not.
I think it's very important for America that we're represented as promoters of peace, love, and understanding.
'Hamilton' is revolutionary in terms of writing.
Everything you write as an artist is about your legacy and your catalog and how you would look in a museum.
We've been conditioned to understand music as a field where you get discovered, and you're always trying to find that end. So 'my shot' is speaking of a variety of shots. When you're a rapper, you look at every shot as the one you're supposed to take.
When I was going out and trying to fully give glory to God, in my setting, I feared that people would be dismissive of it, like, 'This is Christian rap. I'm not trying to hear it.' But it's the total opposite: People were very accepting of it.
I don't make Christian rap, but I am a Christian rapper.
I'm very into film and strengthening what it means to be a rapper and to be a black dude from Chicago.
There was a point where I just did not care about my body.
I was a mad, impressionable kid, and every skit from 'The College Dropout' was telling me how I didn't need school.
I think, as a black man, I have a responsibility to have knowledge and have an opinion.
My grandmother is a huge part of my life. She's just a great woman: a woman of the church.
I don't necessarily think, as a person of influence, that it's always my job to influence people regarding my opinion.
I don't consider being a musician the same thing as being a celebrity.
I used to always rock a cap when I was in high school and get them taken away. It was an excessive amount. Like, so often that, at the end of each school year, there would be a box of all the confiscated caps. After they gave back a few caps to other kids, they would just give me the box because the rest were all my hats.
I hate that when you introduce yourself, and you're a rapper, sometimes you gotta say, 'I'm a musician.' Or, 'I'm an artist.' 'I'm a recording artist.' 'I'm a vocalist.'
There is a multitude of experiences that make up the black experience.
Mixtapes have always been a guerrilla-style means of moving music.
