They don't want art that might actually change the community. They just want consumers. They don't want people to manufacture things. They'll do the ….

It's all economic. Soda is easier to sell than orange juice because its costs less. Water, some coloring, some fizz, and this can, and we can sell th….

I thought about ancient times when we didn't have electric light. People were slaves to the ebb and the flow of the light cycle. Good Morning and Goo….

The stories circulating that Kanye West's laptop has been stolen are completely false. His laptop has never been out of his possession. Hence, the la….

Administrators tend to lump Asians in Chicago into one group, not understanding that these kids would be fighting each other, the Cambodians and the ….

You got to have dedicated people, a lot of dedicated folk. There's only so much one person can do. We really have to find people in our community tha….

I've broken it down to three basic types of people in gangs. You have the first type, the most dangerous, which are the glory seekers. They just want….

The normal kid can differentiate between various aspects of life, but a kid with dyslexia has to connect all those dots, and they have to link it lik….

Being a father is the hardest job on the planet, because we don't have parental instincts like women have. You have to learn how to be a father befor….

So the only way I could stave off any of these assaults was to become a gang banger, and to excel, so I could quell the behavior. If I excelled, then….

The poet's role has changed over the centuries, the ages. The poets, the griots, used to be the keepers of the facts; they were the story tellers, an….

With those organizations, it's like time travel. I just reach back and find little kids who were like me. Maybe the circumstances vary, but the formu….

I let them [Kanye and Pharrell] be them; they let me be me. I'm just a little boy that does poetry whose friends got famous, and I like it that way. ….

I see myself as the oldest griot tradition of speaking to truth out here. There's a dark side that people don't even know is there..