I think Lil Wayne is extremely talented. I think he's one of the most talented ones out there.

Don't make decisions based on the fear.

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.

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.

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

You put the right artist on the right track in the studio and leave the door open to let God in.

No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here