I’m a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It’s just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It’s hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped really.

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.

Cinderella hoein' for the fellas, Mr. Roger was getting kind of jealous.

I won't do anything for money. I won't compromise my manhood.

When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.

The biggest change in the government's behavior has been because of TV and its ability to show to the world what has happened in this community... that's the biggest change. But without TV... the separation between the government and the people would be much worse than it is.

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