There needs to be structures in place to do something about misrepresentation about hip hop. When awards are given out and the media talk about hip hop, they're confused because they haven't done their homework on it so you have a case where there's an award for the most pop song in the world and it's called 'hip hop'.

All I need is one mic . All I need is one life, one try, one breath, I'm one man.

I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

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.

People afraid of criticism but I always put myself in a sacrificial position,they been know I ain't just rappin for fame

Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good. You got a handful of great guys - Ne-Yo, R. Kelly, Usher. You have a handful of great female artists. But for the most part the music world's changing and change is good. You have to make adjustments if you want to survive in that world. You start to thinking about creative moments - bliss. When everything was all good. You realize that in comparison to the way hip-hop started off, where we should be at right now is not there.

Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.