One side of the street is a Church; across the road is a liquor store. Both of 'em keepin us poor.

Where else can you go with respect to the work, lyrics, and message of the music? If you are past high school age, you can get by with saying very little the first or second time around. However, after a while you know you are going to have to say something beyond high school stuff.

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

People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white.

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

Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps

The Internet is one area that I have used pretty effectively to break free of corporate control.