The single most important contribution that I can offer, the strengthening of people's spirit and soul, the strengthening of families, the unity of a husband and a wife. To me, that's most important. Without that, we have nothing. If a son doesn't respect a father, if a child doesn't respect a parent, then we're lost.

We [black people] don't respect our elders. Besides artists, we don't respect Frederick Douglass. We don't respect Martin Luther King. You look at every Martin Luther King Boulevard out here, and it's a crack block. That's not because of white people. That's because of black leadership. We just have that problem, and it's something that I am going to spend the rest of my life trying to conquer.

If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them.

Educate yourself make your world view bigger, visualize wealth, and put yourself in the picture

It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.

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

Trust in God, that's where the crown is at. It's not in what you get, it's what happens after that.