When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.

When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.

If you ever feel comfortable in what you're producing, you've lost. You're not alive, that's it, it's stagnant water.

When I began rapping, I only had one form at my disposal. All I had, all I needed was a rhyme verse; sixteen bar, thirty-two bar, whatever it was. If I had an idea it came out as a rhyme. When I challenged myself to think beyond that, my first thing other than a rhyme that I wrote was a play.

I live or die for hip-hop and it's a beautiful form but you're a writer first and foremost.

The more you close the doors, the less free your ideas can come, and they come from up here and come through you.

Your job is to facilitate and improve your capacity so that when an idea comes you can facilitate it. That's your job as a human being, in my opinion anyway.