I want to hear the artist. I want to hear them give me something that I can relate to, other than the fact that everything's about bragging.

All on the street, you get treated like a street cat: "All right, you've been eatin' enough, you're fat, get out of the way now and let somebody else come by."

I've been lucky enough to reach a place where I can speak what's in my heart, and people know that it comes from a real place; I don't have to worry about doing what someone's not doing - I can do me.

Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.

I think it's harder to make a classic now, not because of what people say, but because artists now are so concerned with what people say.

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.

I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.