The Problem Is Not Cop Killers...it's Killer

Every Story Has A Point Of View And Whether It's By What One Chooses To Include Or Exclude From A Story Or Whether It's A Very Specific Agenda That Is Pushed, There Is No Such Thing As Objective Media. Once You Realize That It's More Than Just A Marketplace Of Ideas, It's A Battleground Of Ideas That Are Suppressed And The Ideas That Are Pushed Forward In The Mainstream Media Are The Ones That Independent Media Has A Chance To Address. I Think That The Democratization Of Media In That Way Can Be Very Helpful In Allowing The Truth To Come Out In A Way That It Might Not On Cnn Or Fox.

In Our Country There's Never Been A Successful Progressive Struggle That Did Not Have A Soundtrack, Whether It Was The Civil Rights Movement, Workers' Rights Movement, Women's Rights Movement. There's Got To Be Songs At The Barricades, And Those Are The Kinds Of Songs That I Try To Write.

I Didn't Grow Up With My Kenyan Family. I Grew Up In A Small, Conservative Suburb Of Chicago.

Of Course, Music Is An Art Form, And It's Not All That Competitive. But We Don't Ever Intend To Be The Second-best Band On A Stage At Any Show.

Sacrifice And Neon Lights, Slaveships Don't Wait, Love Many, Trust Few, And Don't Be Late...