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My job is to inspire the people, to be on top of my game and push my culture forward. ”
It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond. ”
Basically, the Internet is just the way now. It's the end-all, be-all of self-promotion. It's not like you got to burn CDs and pass them out or sell them. The Internet is a tool that reaches billions and billions of people. It's like a no-brainer to tie it in with self-promotion, or even label promotion. ”
The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw. ”
On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture. ”
Change is no threat to culture. ”
The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience. ”
What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices. ”
In communities of color, such as Ferguson, it often feels like the police are protecting the white community from us instead of protecting our communities from the criminal element. ”
Cops should not be separate from the black community or any community. Their salaries are paid for by the communities they police. They should be working for the communities they police. But as we saw in Ferguson, Missouri, they are not always doing that. ”