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

Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.

The best way to boycott is to build your own

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

For a long period of time, the media covered rap music and hip hop the same way they cover a lot of black people, people of color, you know, the bad news happens to be news. They used to have these little stupid colloquialisms that pop up like, "You know what? No news is bad news!" They trick the masses into thinking that any news is great for you. And I just think that's a piece of crap.

You can actually take your pain and processes it into some kind of form of art. So I mean, I've easily always been able to do that, but also I've always been able to give myself perspective - or, you know, older people always give you perspective.

Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.