I don't rhyme for the sake of riddlin'. If I say it, I gotta be able to back it up.

It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want to try to be part of it. Whether you thought you were an artist, whether you thought you could be a DJ, whether you thought you could breakdance, or whether you thought you could rap. It was the kind of culture that had a lot of open doors.

AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.

I've always been a person that, if I'm with a woman, she's in the picture.

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

The trick with hip-hop-hip-hop is a sport. The only music that's really, really close to a sport. It starts off, "My DJ's better than yours. I can out-rap you, I can out-dance you, my graffiti piece is better than you." It's very competitive.

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