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When I Was A Teenager, The Way Some Of These Kids Out Here Be Actively Gay, It Would Have Been Ridiculed In The Hood. And Now The Hood Is A Bit More Accepting. Begrudgingly Accepting, But Definitely More Accepting Than 20 Years Ago When I Was A Little Kid. That Doesn't Mean That Anybody Should Stop Fighting For Equality Just Because People Are Begrudgingly A Little More Accepting.

With Prisoner Of Conscience, The Focus Was - I've Worked With Madlib, High Tech, Kanye West, J Dilla. I Feel Like I've Worked With Some Of The Greatest Of All Time. That's Been Overlooked. That's Been Overshadowed By The Weight Of The Lyrics.

Unfortunately Hip-hop Is So Competitive That In Order For Fringe Groups To Get In, You Gotta Be Better Than Whoever's The Best. So Before Eminem, The Idea That There Would Be A White Rapper That Anybody Would Really Check For Was Fantastic Or Amazing Or Impossible.

We Send Young White Boys To The Army. We're Sending Young Black Boys To The Prisons.

I Think The Biggest Problem In Our Country Is Mass Incarceration And The Prison-industrial Complex. From The Rockefeller Drug Laws To Stand Your Ground To Stop And Frisk, All These Are Pointing People, Especially And Disproportionately Black And Brown People, Towards The Criminal-justice System. It's Depleting Whole Generations Of People.