I always tell people that I was fortunate I was able to come in with a group of men. We didn't come into the game with a group of boys. We were young then. So your cats keep you in check.

I'm most passionate about, you know, making everybody understand that we should all have equal access on this earth.

The biggest thing that has happened to hip-hop is the clinging on to the corporation as the all-mighty hub of the music.

Americans are not sharp. You can be sharp in your own area, I guess, but in this world you gotta be conscious of everybody else in the world too. You just can't be drunken with constitution and hear, okay we're gonna do this and then you hear well, we're gonna go kill this guy 'cause he's a terrorist and you keep gettin' it.

The best way to boycott is to build your own

My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.

Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who claims to speak for the 'hood don't need no private jet.