I keep my enemies close/ I give 'em enough rope/ They put themselves in the air/ I just kick away the chair.

Everything evens up, you just wait, Even a garbage can gets a steak, You ain't even a garbage can, you have faith!

How could I be out there and not do anything?

We create music to express ourselves and when the world relates, that's a beautiful thing. We're all trading off each other's culture, so no matter what lines you put--country indie rock, rap, we're all somehow gonna find a way to come together.

Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.

I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!

On the night he died - he was twenty-seven - Basquiat had been planning to see a Run-DMC show. When people asked him what his art was about, he'd hit them with the same three words: "Royalty, heroism, and the streets.