You don't want to disappoint. Especially someone like me who's been out of music for years and hasn't had an album in like, four years.

I'm proud to be an American, no matter what. But Amercian culture is stale, you know wha I'm saying ? We keep regurgitating the same sh*t. And it ain't exciting. I seen it from when I was a kid watching the whole sh*t. The sh*t was exciting to me.

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.

I broke into shakespeare's tomb and stole his remains, grinded the bones, smoked it, then got in the game

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

It's foul what this money could do, cash corrupts the loyal.

Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.