I prefer a real villain to a false hero.
We should be led by principles and morals and not by men.
I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we've factually already agreed on, and I love reading books. With that said, it's more important that you ask the question 'why.'
I don't accept 'political rapper' because I don't give a damn about either political party. I give a damn about the people. My rap comes from a sociological standpoint rather than picking a particular side or dogma or ideology. I just want people to be free to do what they want, as long as they don't harm others.
A lot of time, when you're poor and you ain't got but 15, 20 bucks in your pocket - if you can't change your shoes, you can change your look with a haircut.
The older I get, the more of an anarchist I become, and I don't mean in a punk rock way.
This is a beautiful life we lead in spite of whatever things come against us or whatever team loses or wins.
Being a cop is often seeing the worst of the human condition and behavior. With all of that said, there is no reason that Mike Brown and also Eric Garner are dead today - except bad policing, excessive force, and the hunt-and-capture-prey mentality many thrill-seeking cops have adapted.
I'm not going to stop being who I am.
I tell people I live in Atlanta. Georgia's outside of Atlanta, absolutely. But my family's from the very rural south. My family's from Tuskegee, Alabama. And they're from Eatonton, Georgia. Places like Greenwood, Georgia, my family is from... so I've seen it both ways.
We have essentially gone from being communities that were policed by people from the communities to being communities that are policed by strangers, and that's no longer a community: that's an area that's under siege.
All of us, as citizens, need to kind of get over our classisms and vote for the betterment of us all.
Bernie Sanders is the only politician who, consistently for 50 years, has taken that social justice platform into politics.
Freedom is not something you're even trying to fight for; you are free. Go. Make sure you live free every day.
In my heart of hearts, I truly believe that Senator Bernie Sanders is the right man to lead this country.
I don't want to be married to any ideology, because life is a lot more fluid than that, and I think that we're trained and conditioned in this country to think in teams.
I maintain hope that this country can be what it's supposed to be.
Ultimately, Dead Prez should have went multi-platinum. But when people didn't rally around them, I knew the black hip-hop audience had become far less politicized.
I've worked with incredible producers in the past, but when me and El-P got in a room, there was no way I was going to let off his head because not only was he one of the greatest producers I heard, he was one of the illest rappers I had ever heard.
The way you start to break down systemic racism is to start building individual relationships with people who are not like you.
