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

Everyone needs a chance to evolve.

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

That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It's worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.

I dumb down for my audience and double my dollars...

I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.

People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it again! You're the greatest!" And that's not good for an artist.