When I recorded my first album, my ego didn't let me believe that what I was gonna say on the mic, anyone would really care about. But then when I found out that they did, I started to take it more seriously.

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about.

Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing.

A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living.

You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.

The more you try to suppress us, the larger we get.