Don't you think it's time we thought about the future? Whether our children are gonna be winners or losers

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

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

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

I used to let the olde english 8- suds bubble in the last car of the Franklin Avenue shuttle

I think that hip-hop should be spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of our black people culture, and it's the name of our identity and consciousness. I think hip-hop is not a product, but a culture. I think rap is a product, but when hip-hop becomes a product, that's slavery, because you're talking about people's souls. To me, that's the biggest problem.