When your so focused on what people say, how can your really be focused on the music? If you're concerned with what someone says, you aren't working on a real record. You're working on something that's just for now, to please people this very second... because you don't believe in yourself.

Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.

I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.

If the truth is told, the youth can grow.

Mind's in another world thinking how can we exist through the facts

I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.

In hip hop no one cares. No one stands up for it and it's a mess. We need order so we can all follow the tradition of where we came from. We need to keep referring to the pioneers.