Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

Winners have to absorb losses.

Hip-hop is the fountain of youth. You just don't grow up if you were there. My son's 20. I'm on the same channel he's on. We wear the same clothes, we feel the same thing. It's a weird, weird generation we're in right now.

Anybody who speeds thinks they can outsmart the cops.

I'm pretty open book, I'm also the kind of person that will say, 'That's none of your business,' too.