People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.

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

There's nothing worse than a good video and good song, and you see a band and hate them because they can't perform. That's wack.

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 don't believe that everybody is out of some kind of cookie cutter, so the thing that protects me is always being level with myself, even to myself.

McDonald's offers a king's ransom to any hip-hop artist who is able to put Big Mac into a song. MTV - and more to the point, Viacom - is succeeding in extending a teenage life to twenty-nine or even thirty-one years old. It is about extending this market and removing any intelligent substance in the music.

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