Music, To Me, If It's Good, It's

People Tell Me All The Time That My Songs Help Them Express Things To Loved Ones That They May Not Be Able To Say Themselves.

Mass Incarceration Is A Policy That's Kind Of Built Up Over The Last Four Decades And It's Destroyed Families And Communities, And Something We Need To Change. And It's Fallen Disproportionally On Black And Brown Communities, Especially Black Communities, And It's Kind Of A Manifestation Of Structural Racism.

There Are More Black Men Incarcerated Today Than There Were Slaves In 1850.

Well, I Was Always A Bit Of A Political Junkie. Even As A Kid I Would Read Biographies Of Presidents And Of Civil Rights Leaders Like Martin Luther King And Frederick Douglass And Booker T. Washington.

I Think The Most Important Thing Is That I'm Making Music That The People Enjoy. So The Fans, The People That Are Out There Listening To Music And Consuming Music, I Want Them To Enjoy It And Love It. And So That's More Important To Me Than Grammys.