When I was younger I never drank. I never drank, I never did any weed or drugs or anything because I felt it would compromise my position. I was an orphan, and I had a feeling like if I ever hit the ground I may never get back up.

I don't watch daytime television, I have a job, I work and, you know, I think daytime television is really for women.

Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you."

You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.

I think that a rap aficionado, the hardcore rap fan, will always go away from pop, in the same way a hardcore jazz fan will never think Kenny G is really a jazz artist. You gotta kind of know there's always going to be that purist who's going to be like if it ain't beats and rhymes, if there ain't a DJ, then that ain't Hip Hop.

Winners have to absorb losses.

When the President (of the United States) mentions your name in anger, you know the sh*t has hit the fan!