I don't think a lot of people have been privy to understanding that there's this talent in hip-hop all over the earth that's just as good. It's just that everything out of the U.S. proclaims to be the best, especially L.A. and New York, being that they're the nerve centers and media capitals of the most predominantly media-emitting country in the world.

Maybe we need to look upon technologies and social networks as things that come out of us, not things that lead us. We can be on top of these things instead of them bein' on top of us as human beings.

Truth is truth no matter what I think.

If you want to be an artist, truly try to write what you believe, and if you write when you don't believe then you should try to become an actor.

Every time something tries to create respect with a machine it crumbles!

DJ culture always made us aware that the best records were going to come from the small shops

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.