Yeah School Girl, Cool Girl. Your Dress

I Was Inspired By, When I Was In College, Seeing Some Incredible Speakers Come To My School: Michael Eric Dyson, Spike Lee, Nikki Giovanni, And Other Poets And Writers. I Always Loved That Experience: Going And Sitting In An Auditorium And Listening To Their Opinions.

In My Mind, New York Was The Place Where They Had The Underground Rap Shows And I Could Get In On Some Ciphers And Just Rap. This Whole Fantasy World I Had Created In My Head About New York Just From Listening To The Music My Whole Life, Like, I'ma Go Up There And Do That. But When I Came Up Here, There Was None Of That, That Scene Was Dead.

Barack Obama Would Not Be President If He Were Dark Skin. You Know What I Mean? That's Just The Truth. I Might Not Be As Successful As I Am Now If I Was Dark Skin.

I'm Not A Conscious Rapper, All Those Things We Talk About, The Struggle, The Pain, The Outlook To The Future, Keep Your Head Up. I Try To Put All Those Positive Things Into A Regular Human Character, Which Is Myself.

I Was A Class Clown. At 12, I Was Definitely Clowning. I Was Making All The Jokes. But I Was Smart, So The Teachers Didn't Know What To Do With Me.