We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.

You lose money chasing women, never lose women chasing money...

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

I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin

I think it's harder to make a classic now, not because of what people say, but because artists now are so concerned with what people say.

America is a melting pot for all different groups of people, historically. And it's rare that the story of all of these people will be told in the history books. So I always felt I had to find out my history for myself and research my roots.

When I try to sound like the contemporary sound, it never turns out that way.