Rappers should just be able to perform what they create and satisfy the people that like and love them.

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

You should be a person inside the world with knowledge of your terrain. And if you lock yourself into the 2,000-by-3,000-square-mile, lower-48 box of the United States, you're going to be frustrated by its limitations. You gotta think outside the box.

Music should be some kind of nourishment.

Money is created by a machine... but you can't really create respect with a machine.

As a late teenager, the punk movement pushed me further. In particular, the Clash, which happened to leak through the time of disco, showed me that there was this cross-cultural sound that could cut across genres and audiences. Like punk was to disco, rap music was a rebellion against R&B, which had adopted disco and made it worse.

Truth is truth no matter what I think.