For me, the challenge is just making great albums, because talent - and writing in general - is not tangible. There's no expiration date on it. At the same time, you might wake up tomorrow and be unable to write music.

Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it

Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet.

In the end, you can't censor the truth, especially when it comes packaged in hot music.

Everyone needs a chance to evolve.

They say a midget standing on a giant's shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am.

I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.