The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.

There's people out there with nuclear bombs and yet we've got all these politicians trying to make a political platform based on a record. Isn't it ridiculous?

I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.

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 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.

I've been in crime for a long time and I know that the actual move isn't the actual crime: the crime continues [afterwards].

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.