Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp.

Arnold Schwarzenegger blew away dozens of cops as the Terminator. But I don't hear anybody complaining about that.

Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp.

I always knew that I had to direct. That was something I'd wanted to do. Finally, I was just looking at the situation and I said, "I wanna document hip-hop, as an art form, seeing how a lot of people don't take it seriously."

I think all music - not just rap - has fallen into this very diluted, delusional state, where everyone's singing about money and having cars, and having all this fun; when really, people are losing their homes.

If you really listen to my music my music is more like stories than party records. I never made party records.

I was a pretty bad person early in my life.