What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.

I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term.

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

If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.

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.

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.

I want to always move forward with everything I am doing. So, I do the radio show, speak at universities and other social institutions all around the world, appear on TV, and continue to create music all in the hope to keep the struggle alive.