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

To me, it's an honour to be accepted as a hip hop artist, it gives me a lot of opportunity to express myself.

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

I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.

I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

You are who you associate with. Look around at your five closest friends and that's who you are. If you don't want to be that person, you know what you gotta do.

Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good. You got a handful of great guys - Ne-Yo, R. Kelly, Usher. You have a handful of great female artists. But for the most part the music world's changing and change is good. You have to make adjustments if you want to survive in that world. You start to thinking about creative moments - bliss. When everything was all good. You realize that in comparison to the way hip-hop started off, where we should be at right now is not there.