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.

Life is parallel to Hell but I must maintain and be prosperous, though we live dangerous.

We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.

I want you to know who I am: what the streets taste like, feel like, smell like. What the cops talk like, walk like, think like. What crackheads do - I wanted you to smell it, feel it. It was important to me that I told the story that way because I thought that it wouldn't be told if I didn't tell it.

You only have one first chance to make one first impression that lasts a lifetime.

The whole thing is, do as much as you can, when you possibly can, and don't stress.

I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.