Realize, how many classics I gave you/Perhaps if you think back you'll realize that I made you

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

How can you lose when you're doing you?

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

I used to keep a dictionary and work with it and then I realized there are more words that exist in the English language than there are in this dictionary.

Freedom or jail clips inserted, a baby's being born/ Same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end.

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.