My life's goal is to find a happy medium for sampling to be not only legal but for the right parties to benefit from it. There have to be sampling laws. The survival of hiphop is based on that.

In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.

To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.

I want to be as healthy as I can be so I can make it past 50; make it past 60 and make it past 70.

All we sell is the Greatest feeling on Earth

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

The only mofos in my circle are people that I can learn from.