I feel like I got a whole lot of living to do before I think about summing it up in a book.

No matter what part of the country you come from, you can always come together to make groundbreaking hip-hop.

My thing is: stay creative. And just because somebody starts to pay you, that don't mean all your creativity goes to that, and you don't save none for yourself to be able to do other, bigger and better things and still follow your dreams even if you start off inside of a box.

I usually don't mind movies that people think go overboard because that's what art is all about. Art is about pushing us and making us examine ourselves.

I think you have to find how the machine can work for you. That's what I mean by "attaching yourself to the machine," 'cause the machine is going to be there, and you can rage against the machine, which is cool, but there's ways that you can benefit off the machine if you're savvy enough and you're sharp enough, smart enough. We all got to live and eat.

People are still tied to their hoods, and it's usually not the artist, it's usually the friends and instigators who get it popping.

Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.