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'.

We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.

I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times, Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind

New York city is full of great spaces. The best spaces of the world are here. This is the new Europe, where the settlers came and busted out their ideas and put it down so there's nothing but great space in this great city.

No temporary chaos is worth your sanity. Just knowing that whatever happens, it happens to the best of them too.

Big L scared me to death. When I heard that on tape, I was scared to death. I was like there's no way I can compete if this is what I gotta compete with.

How can you lose when you're doing you?