Children listen, I'm trying to tell you something good, don't get caught up in the hood.

My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.

I've gotten my personal life all the way intact and made sure that it's straight. Without that, you have no foundation. Your building is going to crumble.

Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet

When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.

I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.

I believe in reincarnation, and I believe I've lived quite a few lives.