If you get into crime you gotta know that everybody's a criminal and everybody's a liar, and everybody has the potential to backstab you, because it's not an honest profession. So don't go into crime and look for honesty.

You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.

I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.

Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.

I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.

I just don't believe that there's any way that you're ever gonna get one peace, because everybody has different ways of seeing life.

I think all music - not just rap - has fallen into this very diluted, delusional state, where everyone's singing about money and having cars, and having all this fun; when really, people are losing their homes.