In the past I had to deal with issues that hit me as a younger man. As a man who wasn't married who didn't really have the experience that I have now. Today I'm a different guy.

Whats up with your motto? Will you lead? Will you follow?

I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.

I wanted to say what wasn't being said. I wanted to give people a real story. I wanted people to know people like me exist in the world.

No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives.

Hip hop started in NY so it's important that New Yorkers realise that to talk about NY music and its sound should not be a small-minded conversation. Music is supposed to evolve. It's supposed to be going through changes, it's not supposed to sound exactly the same as what it did when it started. NY hip hop has to be allowed to move on and grow and expand.

My duration's infinite, money-wise or physiology.