If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.

Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!

We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public.

I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.

I don't feel like my money or my success defines me. I've always been very happy just bein' me.

Who you going to tell when the repercussions spin, showing off your ass because you think it's a trend.

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.