I think a good thing that needs to change is that people should be at least fearless about expressin' themselves.

In the past, people were going to record stores and buying albums or CDs. And the label was exposing their artist as much as possible and maybe getting them picked up by a major. Now I tell people to cut a good tune and have it up in the marketplace the next day. You better be prepared to give it away, and people will come pay to see you.

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

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.

I let go usually by talking to many people in different areas, in different realms of life that make me look at what I'm dealing with as being small fries stuff, you know?

A visit to the hood through a record, or through a video, or through a film, is a lot safer than actually visiting the people in real life. It became a business model. It became a revenue engine that, you know, you can get to the hood without ever going there.

Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps