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I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. That's not what I grew up around.

In every interview I've got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It's gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I'm as critical about music as everybody else is.

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

People - especially white people - they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

Just because I grew up a white guy in America doesn't mean that's the music of my life.

I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.

It's so easy for anyone to deal with their own guilt of being a middle-class white music fan by pointing to other people who they perceive to be richer than them, whiter than them.