Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who claims to speak for the 'hood don't need no private jet.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.

People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.

Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods - the sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow.

My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people.

A private jet is not a luxury; it is a necessity.