Things are fluid in this world, and if you don't remain fluid, you get lost in the sauce.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.

You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.

So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.

There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.