At one point, the old school club retires and you're next up to bat, but if you stop before your time, you will see someone else live your dream.

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

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

There was a lot of negative that was put on rappers for using the word, and I feel like we're just misunderstood. Most of us are; some of us is just plain wack.

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.

I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.

If I made an album just to sell you a story about how I'm the man, it really doesn't show any human side to me. It's good to talk about what's real and what's relevant.