If I do become more successful, either as a producer or a rapper, I'm going to do everything I can to help whoever I can on the label.

I'm not a celebrity, I'm an activist. The fact that when I see truth it's really hard for me to sit back and just allow it to happen in front of me on my clock makes me, a lot of times, a bad celebrity.

We can teach about hip-hop history, we can teach about legends, hip-hop theory. It's been around so long that text books can be written about it. This is a perfect time to capitalize on and get kids excited about music education.

Memories have to be our most painful blessing.

I believe that everyone is a fashion insider, because it's illegal to be naked.

Whether I'm at a dinner with Anna Wintour or a listening party with Pusha T or in Rome with Virgil (Abloh, his style adviser) giving Fendi our designs and getting them knocked down... we brought the leather jogging pants six years ago to Fendi, and they said no. How many m*****f***ers you done seen with a leather jogging pant?

There would have been no Beats deal without the Samsung deal. It showed the number one company the importance of connecting with culture.