I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

I've learned not to be surprised by what people do no more.

To me, it's an honour to be accepted as a hip hop artist, it gives me a lot of opportunity to express myself.

Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.

All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.

There needs to be structures in place to do something about misrepresentation about hip hop. When awards are given out and the media talk about hip hop, they're confused because they haven't done their homework on it so you have a case where there's an award for the most pop song in the world and it's called 'hip hop'.

Big L scared me to death. When I heard that on tape, I was scared to death. I was like there's no way I can compete if this is what I gotta compete with.