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Rappers should just be able to perform what they create and satisfy the people that like and love them.

I've always been jealous of rappers, because they can fit so many words into a song and tell a story with lots of details. But when you're a songwriter, you have to fit the words to the melody and you can't fit as much in. I'm just a big fan of storytelling.

I still very much appreciate the storytelling of the best rappers.

Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.

Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing.

I don't have a very positive attitude towards rappers.

I think that's what most of us rappers do too often. We put too much information in some of our albums that could actually be on the next ones.

With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.

Songs are about just being totally honest and putting those words to music.

Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.