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I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.

Cynical I Am Know Life Never People You

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I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have.

I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.

It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.

It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.

I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I'd rather my song be recognized for what it's doing and that's important. It's not so important how many people know me.

I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.

The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the effect that it can have; nobody is prepared for that.

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I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.

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