Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too.

- Prefuse 73

Just moving one keyboard or synth is a pain in the ass.

- Prefuse 73

My mother would take me to jazz concerts in the park and everybody was smoked out. She gave me the intro and then she forced me to play an instrument…

- Prefuse 73

It takes a community to start a revolution.

- Prefuse 73

My mother's Cubana/Irish and my dad's Catalan. And that blows my mind.

- Prefuse 73

You can go to Spain, and Cubans are looked down upon. It's strange how people chop up where you're from.

- Prefuse 73

It's just weird that indie rock heads and so on are connecting to my music.

- Prefuse 73

As far as ethnicity, you grow up being sensitive to things around you and then become more proactive about it.

- Prefuse 73