There's always going to be space for battle in hip hop. For competition. It's just an inseparable part of the game.

Some people work hard to be something that they're not, and I don't work at all, I'm just me. And that can bother anybody I'm not working nearly as hard as the other guys, and they don't like it.

I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.

When your so focused on what people say, how can your really be focused on the music? If you're concerned with what someone says, you aren't working on a real record. You're working on something that's just for now, to please people this very second... because you don't believe in yourself.

I talk about Africa and its meaning, being the birthplace of man and all that great history that's been erased and even hidden. I think it's my duty to be proud and to bring about the conversation that allows us to talk about the great history of my people.

Life is short is what some niggaz said; not if you measure life - by how one lives and what he did.

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