I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.

Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.

The reason I want to be alone, is I'm tired of all the things that went wrong that would've went right if I had did 'em on my own

Act your age don't pretend to be older than you are give yourself time to grow

Let the music diffuse all the tension.

I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I'm a big fan of Common. I'm a big fan of Scarface; I'm a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to... well, there are a lot of people's music that I respect. I don't know who I will collaborate with, but there's a great chance of something happening.

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'.