I guess entertainment means blatantly lyin'

Hip-hop is bigger than the South, hip-hop is bigger than New York.

When I made Illmatic, I was trying to make the perfect album. It comes from the days of Wild Style. I was trying to make you experience my life. I wanted you to look at hip-hop differently. I wanted you to feel that hip-hop was changing and becoming something more real.

You are who you associate with. Look around at your five closest friends and that's who you are. If you don't want to be that person, you know what you gotta do.

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin

My first record - it was 1991. I was 16 years old. My first album came out when I was 20. So, I've been here that long and I still have the passion to do it.