I believe you can speak things into existence.

I am not a businessman. I am a business, man.

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

Be true to yourself- and keep things simple. People complicate things

My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two overlap as much as they diverge. I was on the streets for more than half of my life from the time I was thirteen years old. People sometimes say that now I'm so far away from that life - now that I've got businesses and Grammys and magazine covers - that I have no right to rap about it. But how distant is the story of your own life ever going to be? The feelings I had during that part of my life were burned into me like a brand. It was life during wartime.

You can pay for school, but you can't buy class

I smoked some weed, and that's how I finished 'Izzo.'