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

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

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

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

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

The rock'n'roll lifestyle really is available to anybody that's got money. Honestly. Once you get money, if you interview a hundred people with money, they'll all sound like rock stars.

I have to take what I say and make it heavy, so every single bar means something. And there's no riddles in my rhymes. Every single word means something.