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.

I guess entertainment means blatantly lyin'

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.

You only have one first chance to make one first impression that lasts a lifetime.

Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.

There was a lot of negative that was put on rappers for using the word, and I feel like we're just misunderstood. Most of us are; some of us is just plain wack.

All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.