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.

Just do as much as you can.

The big stars in rap, they were too big, so when my rap generation started, it was about bringing you inside my apartment. It wasn't about being a rap star; it was about anything other than.

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.

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 want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.

Hip hop started in NY so it's important that New Yorkers realise that to talk about NY music and its sound should not be a small-minded conversation. Music is supposed to evolve. It's supposed to be going through changes, it's not supposed to sound exactly the same as what it did when it started. NY hip hop has to be allowed to move on and grow and expand.