May the best of your today's be the worst of your tomorrow's

Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.

It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day.

I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook.

Whoever said that artists shouldn't pay attention to their business was probably someone w/their hand in some artist's pocket.

Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop.

You not feeling me, fine. It costs you nothing, pay me no mind.