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 definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I'm a big fan of Common. I'm a big fan of Scarface; I'm a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to... well, there are a lot of people's music that I respect. I don't know who I will collaborate with, but there's a great chance of something happening.

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.

I know i can, be what i wanna be, if i work hard at it, I'll be where i wanna be

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.

Hip-hop is such an amazing thing that kids still want to do it. They're not saying, "Ugh, that's the old people's music." No, they're younger than they've ever been that want to get into hip-hop music.

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.