Every time something tries to create respect with a machine it crumbles!

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.

My work throughout my life is always representative of the time we live in. It's all about keeping it in order and keeping it in gear.

I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things.

I don't think a lot of people have been privy to understanding that there's this talent in hip-hop all over the earth that's just as good. It's just that everything out of the U.S. proclaims to be the best, especially L.A. and New York, being that they're the nerve centers and media capitals of the most predominantly media-emitting country in the world.

There's nothing worse than a good video and good song, and you see a band and hate them because they can't perform. That's wack.

McDonald's offers a king's ransom to any hip-hop artist who is able to put Big Mac into a song. MTV - and more to the point, Viacom - is succeeding in extending a teenage life to twenty-nine or even thirty-one years old. It is about extending this market and removing any intelligent substance in the music.