I like to drive and I like to travel. When I drive on the open road, it's like sometimes the car turns into a pen and the road is a piece of paper.

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.

Oh, America is slipping away from the rest of the consciousness of the planet - slipping away.

Ever since I was a teenager, I was always kind of, like, checking myself. You know, like, "Come on man, don't get your head all swollen. Life and time itself will give you perspective on what you're doing." So, that's actually what's always been a reminder in my own head.

With black people, there are 50 Hitlers over the course of history.

I don't have any exteriors that would actually put me into some kind of different air that would actually intimidate somebody to stay away from me.

I like Rick Ross as a person. I like Jay-Z and Kanye West as people. But I hate the companies that they record for.