I Met Mos Def Around That Time

My Kids Are The Most Inspiring Thing That Pushes Me. It Used To Be Because They Were Born, And I Had To Take Care Of Them. Now It's Because My Son Raps, And He's Better Than Me. So Now I Gotta Keep Up With Him, You Know What I'm Saying?

Homosexuality In Hip-hop Is An Extension Of Homosexuality In The Black Community. The Black Community Is Very, Very Conservative When It Comes To Homosexuality, And I Don't Mean Conservative In The Good Way, Like We're Saving Money. I Mean Very Intolerant.

To Be Honest, That Whole Exchange With Crunk Feminist Actually Made Me Write The Song Because I Realize There's A Lot Of Young Women Out There So Hurt By The Misogynistic Images In Hip-hop They Paint It With Such A Broad Brush Stroke That They Think Anybody That Defends Hip-hop Is Defending Misogyny.

My Musical Influence Is Really From My Father. He Was A Dj In College. My Parents Met At New York University. So He Listened To, You Know, Motown, And He Listened To Bob Dylan. He Listened To Grateful Dead And Rolling Stones, But He Also Listened To Reggae Music. And He Collected Vinyl.

Crunk Feminist Collective, I Think, Is A Noble Endeavor, And Any Group Of Young Women Coming Together To Uplift Women, Especially Being Run By Women Of Color, I Have No Choice But To Support That. But They're Dead Wrong On Me.