No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done

People have stopped battling in hip hop, in the primitive sense, and the focus of the competitive element has shifted to the music. It's less about bragging and more about being the best lyrically and poetically.

I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.

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

God gushed me out his nuts, the devil swallowed me up and I burnt a hole in his guts

Sunlight and seeing something that was a thought become a thing and materialize - that makes me come alive.

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