I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers.

I live in L.A. because my kids do. Home is where my kids are for me.

There was a lot of negative that was put on rappers for using the word, and I feel like we're just misunderstood. Most of us are; some of us is just plain wack.

Don't speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your words.

"Never stop. Never settle." I believe in this message.

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.

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.