The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.

I was trying to be the best rapper in the world. I wasn't thinking about acting.

If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.

Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.

I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.

Do not turn into just cookie-cutter producer, cookie-cutter this, but a producer that people say wow, when they do something it's great or just unique or whatever.

If I only had 24 hours to live, I would spend the time telling everybody I love that I love them.