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

I've lectured at Stanford, Princeton & Harvard to name a few... I just might be smarter than YOU

Redemption means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. So I think a lot of people get hooked on drugs and when they get over that addiction they go out and they try to talk to kids and they try to work in rehab centers.

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

You know, the radio never wanted you to speak about anything, so the music is kinda influenced by the hands of the radio which wants to homogenize it and dilute it and sanitize it. And for the most part, nobody's takin' the time to seek out the cats that are still tryin' to talk, so they have a difficult time being heard.

It's not about being mad at everything. It's about being really mad at the right things.

I wouldn't write about sh*t I don't know. You won't hear me write about politics in Africa and stuff, because I don't know enough about it. And I would never rap about something I can't back up.