I hate to get on the racial thing because that's something I've always been totally against. But the problem with the media is that they think that the word rock means white and the word rap means black.

When we say a rapper, a rapper can say a rhyme. But an MC can rock a party.

You can't do an impersonation of somebody nobody knows.

When you start to really travel and you get to these abstract like places in the world, you would see certain people's names. It seemed like we could go anywhere. Like when we went to Afghanistan, you'd see in the dressing room Run DMC's name. Certain rappers are like journey men.

The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.

I'm very much against the anonymity of bloggers and social media. I just hate it and I think it's really cowardly.

You've got the Wall Street situation, the sub-prime situation. You've got a black president. We've got wars. We've got unemployment. But the music doesn't reflect that. And I challenge anybody to show me a music that's on the radio that reflects that.