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

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'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

The reason I've been groundedand able to make albums, is because I've allowed my friends to come with me and voice an opinion. That's who keeps you grounded, the people who have known you longest.

Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice

In trouble waters I had to learn how to float

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