New York is the financial capital of the world. Everything moves so fast, and the music is fast, and some of it is for money..

I think it's interesting that a lot of times people want celebrities to give back in the way that they want them to give back. They want them to give….

There's an economy of violence. It's sexy. It's being exploited..

I know rappers who are grandparents and we still haven't conquered politics, social development, philanthropy and these are areas, as we become our p….

There's a duty and an obligation to community that we must teach our children to honor no matter how far they go. Life is like baseball: You only sco….

Real artists offer authenticity, not just money..

I don't think that we should look to celebrities to solve problems that are on our end of the street..

Our visual and musical artists have no incentive to be educated. So what we get is a bunch of uneducated artists inspiring misinformation, miseducati….

True power is the power to empower others..

When I think about a Chicago sound, I think about the Great Migration from the South. Many of Chicago's black artists are from Mississippi, Arkansas,….

I definitely believe that the power of the artist is in the artist's hands now. We're kind of in the wild, wild west of music where labels don't exis….