I've been in crime for a long time and I know that the actual move isn't the actual crime: the crime continues [afterwards].

If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.

If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.

You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.

I think what's happenin' is that, with the overflow of music, it's been diluted. There was a time when people would go search out underground records. Now, underground means free, and people don't really care for it. So now artists tend to go more pop and look for the radio.

I'd say people are victims of circumstances and they're limited to the opportunities that they see. Even though there might be more opportunities, you might not see them. You might just think, "I don't have any options." You usually go to the dark side, in that situation.

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