The victory's found in truth, like innocence found in youth Self defeat is your own dispute

Nas is someone who can communicate with the streets and can still keep it real in terms of being human, he doesn't try to be this super perfect person, but has respect for his history and for his ancestors and for spirituality. So Nas always displayed that in his music, while at the same time keeping it hard and something that you can relate to.

I love hip-hop music, ... It's rebel music is how I like to speak about it. Hip-hop and reggae come from the same community as far as class...they both come from the bottom of society.

Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.

The average man can't prove most of the things that he chooses to speak of, and still won't research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of

When you do an album about Africa, you can't be too superficial.

Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music.