Raheem DeVaughn

Being an entertainer, my path to inner peace is engulfed in the music that I create. While it is therapeutic for those who hear it, it is equally therapeutic for me to create.

When I make my socially conscious songs, I go hard with the lyrical content; I go hard with the imagery.

No matter what road I take, I can never get too far away from the conscious lyric and the socially conscious content.

You can't abandon an audience you created, because people will find someone else.

I like to think that everything I do is tastefully done and doesn't come off necessarily like ratchet or something that tears women down. I like to make tasteful, seductive music.

I think you have some artists who try to be as conscious as they can be.

Being an indie artist, you have to fight for position against a major.

I'm constantly reinventing myself. It's a constant thing that I do.

I've blown myself up as a revolutionary and conscious artist. As a philanthropist and a performer.

I enjoy being slept on. It's like being on the verge of a cult movement. But making the underground-to-aboveground transition is cool.

The strength it takes to love, mold, and nurture a child should be honored every single day.

I walked away from the Jive Records situation, but I still have a great relationship with a lot of the workers and a lot of people who were in that system that have moved on to other places. I felt like being there; it totally wasn't understood what the Raheem DeVaughn movement was about.