The battle thing is very important in hip-hop, but at the same time, I want to sit down and have a beer and listen to Rakim.

There needs to be someone who can lead you in the right direction.

Unless somebody who's already eleven thousand times platinum is like, "We're ushering this project in," it's not really gonna pop commercially.

New York City gritty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty.

Radio makes it appear like you can get some sounds in a laptop and be the next dude. Those careers don't really last.

Man, I would demand that artist come to the table with better variety. I would demand that musicians know music history, not just Hip-Hop, so that we could understand. The better your 'listening ear' is, the better your music will be.

If you holding up the wall then you missing the point