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Hip-hop And R&b Are Especially Fertile Bases Of Collaboration. It Always Makes Good Records And Good Music.

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

I Care More About The Fans In General, Just Making Sure They Enjoy What I Do. And Then Also I Kind Of Had This Kind Of Ideal Of The Kind Of Music I Want To Make And What I'm Aiming For Kind Of Creatively And Just The Quality Of The Music That I'm Trying To Make. And I Have That In My Head.

As A Young Black Boy, It Made Me Proud To See Black Leaders That Did Something Amazing And Made The World Change.

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.