Hip-hop Is Such A Disposable Art Form

I'm Not One Of Those People Who's So Blinded By My Own Work And My Sweat. It's Kind Of Risky Writing A Memoir When You're Really Part Of A Larger Universe.

Resistance Here Doesn't Mean Revolution. It Doesn't Mean Storming The Barricades. Resistance Means Using Art For The Things That It Does Best, Which Is To Create Human Portraits And Communicate Ideas And Forge A Climate Where People Of Different Races Or Classes Are Known To You Because They Make Themselves Known. In The Simplest Terms, Art Humanizes. It Opens The Circuit Of Empathy. And Once That Process Happens, It's That Much Harder To Think Of People As Part Of A Policy Or A Statistic. Art Reverses The Alienation That Can Creep Into Society.

I Really Appreciate When People Use Their Fame And Their Voice For More Than Just Self-promotion, Starting A Dialogue About A Topic Or An Issue Much Bigger Than Themselves.

In Terms Of Being A 'sneakerhead,' There Was One Point Where I Was Obsessively Following Every Sneaker Blog. That's The Beauty Of Twitter: To Get The Heads Up On What's Coming Out.

My Life's Goal Is To Find A Happy Medium For Sampling To Be Not Only Legal But For The Right Parties To Benefit From It. There Have To Be Sampling Laws. The Survival Of Hiphop Is Based On That.