Poverty makes people do reckless things, but [the rich] do worse to protect their [interests]

The way music reflects real life, the way that painstakingly, over the years, what I have said is really a metaphor for what's happening to America. It used to be about, or tried to be at the very beginning, about what was right. It has stopped being what was right for America; it started being about what was right for companies that are in control.

I Freestyle my Destiny, It's not written in Pages.

Doubt that there could ever be...a more wicked MC. 'Cuz AIDS infested child molesters aren't sicker than me.

Devils used to be God's angels that fell from the top. There is no diversity cos we're burnin in the melting pot.

Pharoahe Monch is a long time supporter of my music and I'm a long time supporter of his music so when we met each other it was almost like a natural occurrence.I met him before a few years earlier and we were just politicking with each other and we had a conversation about possibly doing something but our schedules have always been in conflict.

Hip-hop is about the human condition; it's about people's lives.