Highlight reels are about that one person. After a barrage of highlight reels, you get the sense that you can do it without a team. But music thrived the most when groups were involved. People lose sight of that - that community makes the world run.

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.

It's easy for me to say, "Oh yeah, that's the self-saboteur move that most artists pull whenever they're afraid."

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."

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.

Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time.

I never want to get to that level of poverty where taking a bath has to be a hot-pot experience.