I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.'
“Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.”
“And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it.”