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.

My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music business

Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded. When I named the album originally, I thought I bit off more than I could chew but you'd be an idiot to think I'm talking about how the South killed hip-hop or how New York isn't where it should be or where it once was. It was like, "Damn, I need to explain this?" But I thought, "Nah, the proof is right there. We should know what it is." I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at.

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

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

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.

If the virgin Mary had an abortion, I'd still be carried in a chariot of stampeding horses.