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

I've always loved rhyming. I love language.

I want to be necessary and do good works. I ain't here to waste nobody's time, because I don't want you to waste mine.

I'm doing exactly what I was supposed to do. Yeah. I didn't exactly choose this. My own life, if it were up to me, would be very, very quiet. I'd be like a shopkeeper, a book collector, or something like that. I'm not like this. Myself as a performer and an artist is totally different from who I am.

To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.

I'm blacked than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle

In the early '90s, when I really started to find my voice, I was reading a lot of books, and I was moved by the writers, like Chinua Achebe, and I wanted to be able to write rhymes that were as potent as what I was reading.