No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun.

I want to hear the artist. I want to hear them give me something that I can relate to, other than the fact that everything's about bragging.

When I made Illmatic, I was trying to make the perfect album. It comes from the days of Wild Style. I was trying to make you experience my life. I wanted you to look at hip-hop differently. I wanted you to feel that hip-hop was changing and becoming something more real.

Somehow the rap game remind me of the crack game

I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.

The hardest thing is to forgive, but God does, even if you murdered or robbed, ya it's wrong, but God loves, take one step toward him he'll take two toward you, even when all else fails, God'll support you

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