Speak what I want, I don't care what y'all feel. 'Cause I'm my own master, my Pop told me be your own boss. Keep integrity at every cost.

People have stopped battling in hip hop, in the primitive sense, and the focus of the competitive element has shifted to the music. It's less about bragging and more about being the best lyrically and poetically.

Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.

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.

I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times, Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind

You have to keep your vision clear, cause only a coward lives in fear.

I've learned not to be surprised by what people do no more.