Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

Get on yo job little man this ain't Saturday

I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.

Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.

Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.