Killer Mike

“My hair is dry. A lot of shampoos and greasers don't work with me, and so I started playing around with a chemist on a product that'll work with me.”

“I cannot lie: as good as it feels to get my deserved props, the best part of reading social media after I meet folks is reading, 'Mike was a nice guy.'”

“Jake 'The Snake' Roberts of Stone Mountain, Georgia, was the darkest! I mean, he could've been a movie villain, he was so intense! He also had the hardest finishing move of all time, the DDT.”

“What's more American than young people speaking their mind over things they had to create over pots and pans and electronically because music was taken out of schools? What's more American than making something out of nothing? What's more gospel than rap music?”

“We are raising a generation of kids where everyone gets a trophy. But in real life, everyone don't get a trophy.”

“In my heart of hearts, I truly believe that Senator Bernie Sanders is the right man to lead this country.”

“I'm a Banksy fan. I'm also a fan of Chris Hobe, Mister Totem, Drew Wootten, Mad Clout, Hense and Sever, in visual and street art. And Jonathan Mannion and Shane Nash in photography.”

“My rights are precious, and I value those provided to me through the United States Constitution so much.”

“We have essentially gone from being communities that were policed by people from the communities to being communities that are policed by strangers, and that's no longer a community: that's an area that's under siege.”

“Freedom is not something you're even trying to fight for; you are free. Go. Make sure you live free every day.”

“We have a responsibility to do better as black people in this country. I don't care how white people look at you - I care that we have a one-trillion-dollar spending base, and if you want to see change, you have to start to focus on, economically, how can we change our communities.”

“I've been in the newspapers since I was about 15 - not for rapping, but for real substantive stuff I was doing in the community, organizing around gang violence in the schools. So I had already made my grandma proud before I was on TV. I've always been who I am.”

“I don't want to be walking around angry and feeling rage.”

“I believe being honourable lasts longer than rapping good.”

“I've been watching wrestling since I was three years old.”

“I'm a student of Ice Cube and Scarface, which means the stuff I rap about is not radio-friendly, and it's very opinionated. and it's very much from the perspective of a black man in America, and our opinion ain't always popular when we have a political opinion.”

“My biggest failure was trying to start and run a music label. The music industry was dying, and I wasn't ready to help other people the way that they needed to be helped. I was trying to, and I was stifling myself with it.”

“A lot of times, elections are lost, and the hope of the public is lost because they don't turn out.”

“My mom had did a wonderful job of giving me two great dads: I had a biological and non-biological dad.”