I Gotta Be Dope First.

Artists Look At The Environment, And The Best Artists Correctly Diagnose The Problem. I'm Not Saying Artists Can't Be Leaders, But That's Not The Job Of Art, To Lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - There Are Artists All Through History Who Have Become Leaders, But That Was Already In Them, Nothing To Do With Their Art.

The Materialism, The Brashness, The Misogyny - Everything In Hip-hop Is Amplified. Misogyny Is A Good Example Of Something That Is Completely Amplified In Hip-hop. I Do Think There Is More Than Enough Of A Balance, Though, For Fans Who Are Willing To Search It Out.

The Responsibility Of An Artist Is To Be Honest With Themselves.

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.

I'm Spinning Records And I Look Across The Restaurant And I See Somebody Who Looks Asian. And I'm Like, "yo, That Looks Like Yoko Ono." I'm Like, Oh, I Can Just Meet - That's Going To Be Great. Then I Look Carefully And I'm Like, "that's Not Yoko Ono, That's Bruno Mars." And It Was Bruno Mars. That Just Happened Recently. I Was Bugging Out. Because That Was Totally Not Yoko Ono At All.