… really make a change. I think Kendrick Lamar is an example of that. I think J. Cole definitely is an example of that, in trying to shift the paradigm a little bit. Kanye West is another one.”
“Going back to my individual challenges with music, is it good? Is it not good? Is it helpful? If you take it back to just the tribal, communal interaction with music, it was a place where people sat down in a circle and they communicated. They listened. They vibrated. And then they talked about whatever was happening, what was feeling. That talk about the feeling then became a song. That song then turned back into the conversation. And I think it was used as a way to heal and help and teach the next generation. So that’s what we aspire to.”
“And it takes me back to the beginning of our conversation. It’s why I can’t lower the bar. Because I do truthfully believe that music is transformative.”
“I want to love the songs when it’s over. And I don’t want to look at it and go, “Man, this song really hurt the culture. Yeah, I made 100 million off of it but, man, it killed the culture. Oh, well. Cool. I’m on my yacht. I don’t care.” And I know a lot of people are good like that, but I’m just not one of those people.”