I Know What Tablas Sound Like, Because

To Me, You Can't Win. You Can't Win. There's A War In Iraq; There's No Way That They're Ending That. The War In Afghanistan Is Still Going On. There's No Way That's Going To End Anytime Soon. You Can Complain About It, You Can Throw Rocks At It, But You Really Have To Come To The Conclusion That This Is A Really Twisted Place Sometimes And Some Stuff You're Not Going To Win.

There Is No Line Of Demarcation Between The Amateurs And The Pros; Everyone Is Using The Same Tactics And Playing In The Same Arenas. The Only Thing That Separates Them Is Radio, But The Artist Doesn't Control Who Goes To Radio And Who Doesn't.

I Look At People Like Picasso And Da Vinci And Escher And Miles Davis, And They'll Write Or Paint That One Definitive Masterpiece Of Maybe 50 That They Have That's Really Trying To Go Outside The Box, Trying To Do Something That's Tough. And Then When You Accomplish It, You Look Back And Go, 'yeeaaaah - Masterpiece.'

That Should Be The Measure Of Success For Everyone. It's Not Money, It's Not Fame, It's Not Celebrity; My Index Of Success Is Happiness.

The Murder Rate In Chicago Is Skyrocketing And You See Who's Doing It And Perpetrating It, They All Look Like Chief Keef.