Respect, brotherhood - the family comes first, and everything else falls in place after that.

I'm not cocky, I'm confident. So when you tell me I'm the best it's a compliment

I'm raspy, and if I wasn't a smoker, I'd still be raspy. My pops has a raspy voice, and my grandfather.

People have no discrepancy for me or my lyrics or the song.

You should never try to make a record and say it's for the radio, you should just make it, and then if it happens to be that, that's what it happens to be.

What if Manhattan was hit by Hurricane Katrina?

Too hard for MTV, not black enough for BET, just let me be.