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

If you're a conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem.

The courage to be yourself is the essence of hip hop

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

I know that I'm freer as a hip-hopper than as an executive. Even as a black man, I enjoy more freedom as a hip-hopper than as a black man. That, s controversial to say, but it's the truth.

It's not that you don't make any money doing conscious rap music. You make a lot of money doing this, but if you're greedy and you're not satisfied with $500,000 a year, and you want $2 million a year, then you will suffer as a conscious rap artist.

Hip-Hop is being spoken through spirituality... Meaning that you'll be able to listen to it spiritually for yourself.