With each new album: I need to kill the last version of me..

I like making mini-movies rather than just three-minute, place-the-champagne-here-for-sponsorship videos..

I would challenge more hip hop artists that are rapping about what it`s like to be real and the social ills that we face, if you aren`t backing Berni….

The press has not done a fair job of exposing his [Bernie Sanders] policy. He has not had the television time that he deserves or that Hillary Clinto….

As an artist, that's our job - to be with you in times of celebration and when the world is kicking your ass..

I don't accept the term 'political rapper' because I don't give a damn about either political party. I give a damn about the people..

The freedom of speech and the freedom of press, it's just precious man, it really is..

She [Hillary Clinton] knows the people well. I think there is - you know, also talking about breaking down barriers and talking about that, whether w….

This is jazz, this is funk, this is soul, this is gospel This is sanctified sick, this is player Pentecostal. This is church front pew, Amen, pulpi….

You'll always see me at a political rally and the black strip club; I'm gonna represent smoking weed and supporting Trayvon Martin on my record, beca….

When you talking about funk music you just talking about a collage of a lot of different types of music. They used strings, they had brass, they had ….

I`ve never been a passive political supporter. My grandmother, Betty Kleitz , god bless her soul, was from Tuskegee, Alabama, took parts in the civil….

Being a black rapper is like being a Southern, socialite woman: You're always worried about appearances..

I love Dr. King, but violence might be necessary; Cause when you live on MLK and it gets very scary, You might have to pull your AK, send one to th….

I don't trust the church or the government, and anything the church or the government tells me I assume to be a lie or a conspiracy, until proven tru….

Being an adult, you've already suffered enough from your own mistakes, and the world, to come to this as a humble human being. So it's not like, "I'm….

People tend to think of gentrification in terms of race because it's presented that way, and I think it's presented that way because in poor cities t….

When you say you want to talk about racial justice, that`s not the same as I want to do something about racial justice. Saying I want to hold police ….

I feel worn down as a human being who has to constantly justify their existence to other human beings because I'm a minority.

I would just encourage everybody to just talk your opinion more, allow other people and fight for other people to [express theirs]..

God really exists, I tell you like this: It resides inside. And anybody tell you different, Just selling you religion, Tryin' to keep your ass in….