It's not about what you get out but what you put into hip hop as a genre.

I have to be conscious of what I'm sayin' because people are gonna come at me about this sh*t.

The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government.

Find like-minded people and try not to be individualized to the point where you try to fight it all and think about it all on your own.

Rap music and rap records used to always be like this: we get one or two shots to a piece cause it was a singles marketplace and when the major record companies saw that it could also handle the sales of the albums then they started to force everybody to expand their topics from 1 to about 10 and you gotta deliver 12 songs, so a lot of times if you took a person who wasn't really developed, and the diversity of trying say 12 different things, you know the companies were like "Cool! Say the same thing 12 different ways."

Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.