You ni**az get me sick, wannabe soundin like you know my arithmetic... but we don't sound alike
Play it cool, that's the old school rule man.
I think more people want to be rappers than anything else.
Don't ever give up on yourself. Keep pushing because the change of guards is what life's all about.
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.
Jamaican music can be aggressive, soulful, smooth and exciting all at once - just like hip-hop. At the same time, there's nothing like Jamaica in the United States. Jamaica is its own thing.