If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

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

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

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.

It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want to try to be part of it. Whether you thought you were an artist, whether you thought you could be a DJ, whether you thought you could breakdance, or whether you thought you could rap. It was the kind of culture that had a lot of open doors.

I didn't start off with the responsibility because I didn't think anybody would care. But as you do meet these people influenced by your music, then you start to understand you have a responsibility. I don't think you initially know it until you feel the power of what you're really doing.