So rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that's coming out today, people are just, they've got it on as background music. It's kind of the same way the cabdrivers use music; it's very disposable. But, that doesn't mean there aren't a great number of artists who are doing things to change that.

You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics.

There was a time when hip-hop was its own musical principle, aside from sampling. Like the entire Wild Style break is instrumental. Kurtis Blow's earliest stuff was studio musicians playing. Whodini had a real clear sound, things like "five minutes of funk," stuff that you could write really beautiful, lush string and horn arrangements around, stuff that was just music.

I was taught when there's somethin' you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin' to complain about.

You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it’s vital that a change happens now.

I don't care about what brand you are, I'm concerned what type of man you are, what your principles and standards are.

Young bloods can't spell but they could rock you in PlayStation...