People who stutter or talk with a lisp, it might be some spit flying from they shit. So I said, “I spit more than speech impediments.”

“No time for fake people” is a reference to sim, like the Sims. They be simming, and it’s Simmons like Kimora Lee Simmons.

It’s just a connection with how we thought. But also, he had the presidential pack. The trees, you know what I’m saying? So it’s time to inaugurate; time to bring it in. To our cipher and everything. And that was just regular shit so it just flowed effortlessly. Like that’s what we did like almost everyday.

That’s a Toy Story reference.

Those people, I’m talking to, that’s everybody. I don’t know everybody’s problems. I know we all got problems. I don’t know what everybody’s problems would be but to fix some of the problems that are closer to me? Closer to my home? I think the first thing that we can do is, it involves going to the United Nations and presenting our problems to the world. We can’t present our problems in front of this country, because this country knows what it has done to us. We have to somehow gather ourselves, gather our leaders, our political leaders, social leaders alike and go down to the United Nations and address our problems to the world. And then put the United States of America on trial for what it’s done to our people. I think that’s a better solution than protesting. I’ve been to a couple of protests. Let me just break it down real quick. My whole new album is pretty much, me over these last couple of years, these things happening to young black men like me and me as an artist feeling so responsible and me not knowing what to do about it. So this new album is basically what I’ve done about it. This is me speaking how it is, what I want to say and how I feel.

“Religion is the opiate of the masses.” When I seen that quote, I had to think about it for a minute, because I’ve always felt like that since a kid. Not that religion separates people. Just ‘cause you’re Christian and this person is Muslim, does that mean that there can’t be love? Does that mean that there can’t be positive talks? Positive interactions? Convos? Stuff like that? When I seen that line, it was just like, wow. I felt this way from a kid. I remember one of the most prominent convos I’ve ever had with my mom was when I was about 7 or 8 years old, and we were just driving through my neighborhood. I was in the backseat, she’s driving, just me and my mom in the car. I’m looking out the window, and were’ driving past a whole different churches. You know how Brooklyn is. You got the Pentecostal church here and the Catholic church here. Just mad different churches. And so I Just asked my mom, “What religion are we?” 'Cause I know I got the girl with the hijab in my class. I got another person in my class who is Christian. So I’m trying to figure out what are we. And my mom told me the best thing she could have possibly told me. She said, “We’re non denominational. That means we don’t have a religion, but we believe in God.” And that kept my mind open at an early age. I was able to have a more open mind than some of the kids, who were my age, just because of that conversation. “Wow, I don’t got to think in a box about God. I can just talk to God as he is, out here or inside of here.”

People know how it goes. The ghetto are not just bad because their bad. They’re bad because they have no other options. There is nothing else for them to turn to. Except for crime and stealing and stuff like that. Robberies, killings and murder. There are no other options. There is no way out. You look at a project—and this is something I got from the OG, RZA and his book—and everything is right there so those people don’t got to leave. That’s why they call it a project experiment. You got the project, you got the laundromat across the street, you got the school down the block, you got the corner stores, you got the grocery store, right there, too. And you know what else? You know what completes the whole shit? You got the prison. You got the precinct right there. It’s like, people know this shit. They know it. People don’t really want to talk about it. This is basic shit. This is everyday shit that is going on. Where do we get our guns from? Why do they give us guns? To kill each other. They know that’s what we’re going to do.