I've always been a person that, if I'm with a woman, she's in the picture. Even my son's mom, she was on my early (album) covers.

I'm pretty open book, I'm also the kind of person that will say, 'That's none of your business,' too.

One of the things about powerful people is they have the ability to make it look easy.

I'm very much against the anonymity of bloggers and social media. I just hate it and I think it's really cowardly.

Everybody is doing you a favor when you're doing a documentary. You can't pressure them into it.

When you start to really travel and you get to these abstract like places in the world, you would see certain people's names. It seemed like we could go anywhere. Like when we went to Afghanistan, you'd see in the dressing room Run DMC's name. Certain rappers are like journey men.

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."