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.

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.

Teachers teach and do the world good, Kings just rule and most are never understood

Just black executives have a bias against older artists. We don't respect our elders. 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.

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.

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