The best medicine for pain sometimes is some kind of logic and common sense from older folks. They tell you, "Okay, you're not the only one who actually went through this."

One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.

I think hip hop should be a living word. And what I mean by the living word is like yo, you gotta have the words that provide life.

I don't have any exteriors that would actually put me into some kind of different air that would actually intimidate somebody to stay away from me.

Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.

Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no moral code, it's just about successful business for America.

DJ culture always made us aware that the best records were going to come from the small shops