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

A lot of artists have been persuaded into doing whatever they can do to gain attention. The media, of course, will position and promote the worst of them to the front page. The sidewalk to crime becomes the marketing campaign. These artists have seen it work and sell millions and millions of records for other artists.

Bigger doesn't mean better unless you really understand what bigger is.

The biggest thing that has happened to hip-hop is the clinging on to the corporation as the all-mighty hub of the music.

Find like-minded people and try not to be individualized to the point where you try to fight it all and think about it all on your own.

You know, you should start to be in plays and things like that. Write some scripts. If you're an artist and you truly don't believe what you're spittin' then you need to really seriously be an actor then.

I think governments are the cancer of civilization.