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

All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.

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.

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

I've met a lot of people and happened to inspire a lot of people who I'm in conversation with about business. It's just how things are going for me and it's great, but music is always going to be number one for me.

I'm never gonna die, never heard of death, energy can never be destroyed only the flesh, so when you try to murder me with bullets to the head this is why you can't kill me niggaz, I'm already dead.

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.