Funk never dies. It is eternal. It just smells a little different from time to time.

Half the time, my job is basically to talk people off the ledge. It's more psychological than just me picking up some sticks and counting, "1, 2, 3, 4."

Crack offered a lot of money to the inner-city youth who didn't go to college. Which enabled them to become businessmen. I know about maybe five people in the entertainment industry who did their peak work as a result of crack usage.

I've always been a lover of hoodies. I'm a guy that travels a lot. I'm a guy that spends a lot of time on a cold air-conditioned tour bus. I'm a guy that likes to watch movies in peace. I'm a guy that likes to travel in the airport in peace.

When you first start off, you see what other people have and quietly say, "I want that."

Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

Switching off perfection switched on the human quality