The courage to be yourself is the essence of hip hop

As a conscious rap artist, you should not want to be in a gangster market. You should be trying to establish your own market, create a place where you can be yourself and make some money and feed your family.

Rap is something you do Hip Hop is something you live

I make intelligence cool. I make spirituality cool. If we can make one's devotion to God cool, then I think I did a great thing. I can rest in peace.

Hip-hoppers are not interpreting what hip-hop is, and when we do interpret it, we interpret it as something immature, unorganized, and outlaw.

Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong.

If we have power to degrade an entire society, then we also have the power to uplift it.