Africa Has Been Going Through So Much

I Rap For Listeners, Blunt Heads, Fly Ladies And Prisoners

When I Made Illmatic, I Was Trying To Make The Perfect Album. It Comes From The Days Of Wild Style. I Was Trying To Make You Experience My Life. I Wanted You To Look At Hip-hop Differently. I Wanted You To Feel That Hip-hop Was Changing And Becoming Something More Real.

Mostly Every Form Of American Music Is Dead. It's Been Dead. R&b Isn't Really Good. You Got A Handful Of Great Guys - Ne-yo, R. Kelly, Usher. You Have A Handful Of Great Female Artists. But For The Most Part The Music World's Changing And Change Is Good. You Have To Make Adjustments If You Want To Survive In That World. You Start To Thinking About Creative Moments - Bliss. When Everything Was All Good. You Realize That In Comparison To The Way Hip-hop Started Off, Where We Should Be At Right Now Is Not There.

There's Really Nothing Better Than Music To Bring People Together And To Have Amazing Music Being Not Just Created Inside Walls But Then Decimating And Activating Is Going To Be Special.

I Had A Pretty Public Divorce. They're Not Easy - Divorces - And It Took Me A Long Time To Really Get Through.