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

When I say hip-hoppers, I mean black, white, Asian, Latino, Chicano, everybody. Everybody. Hip-hop has united all races. Hip-hop has formed a platform for all people, religions, and occupations to meet on something. We all have a platform to meet on now, due to hip-hop. That, to me, is beyond music. That is just a brilliant, brilliant thing.

The single most important lesson I learned is that black people are the cause of black people's demise.

I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property, like journalists do, you have a responsibility not to tear it down, but to raise it up. The depiction of rap and of hip-hop culture in the media is one that needs more of a responsible approach from journalists. We need more 30-year-old journalists. We need more journalists who have children, who have families and wives or husbands, those kinds of journalists. And then you'll get a different depiction of hip-hop and rap music.

You are not doing hip hop; you ARE hip hop.

So you think that hip-hop had it's start out in Queensbridge, If you popped that junk up in the Bronx you might not live.

There could never really be justice on stolen land.