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War Is Not Civilized.

I Think The Biggest Problem In Our Country Is Mass Incarceration And The Prison-industrial Complex. From The Rockefeller Drug Laws To Stand Your Ground To Stop And Frisk, All These Are Pointing People, Especially And Disproportionately Black And Brown People, Towards The Criminal-justice System. It's Depleting Whole Generations Of People.

By The Time You Get Into Other Kinds Of Music - R&b, Country, Or Whatever - It Becomes Something That's Romantic. It Becomes Something Unattainable. Never-ending Undying Love. And In Hip Hop, We're Still Taking Direct Inspiration.

Let Me Finish My Music, And Let Me Present It The Way I Want To Present It. And Then Share It, Put It Online, Do Whatever You Want To Do After That.

I Met Mos Def Around That Time But I Didn't Hook Up With Him Until I Was About 17 Or 18.