When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and better.

We was just young guys who wanted to change. We got tired of doin' this same everyday bullshit that we was doin', and we all felt like we had dreams o' bein' a big star. You know, as far as with myself, I never really took it that serious as bein' a star. I only took it that serious as bein' a emcee, which is two different things. You know what I mean?

Ghost tells me every few years, Yo, you showed me this style ... I'm like, man, we the same style. At the end of the day, he's one of my favorite rappers, I'm one of his favorite rappers, and we just do it.

When I sit here and see that the eight brothers from the neighborhood that I grew up with still have success, it had to be magical.

The better you get, the more your legacy shines. I always just try to go hard. If you don't want do it for real, don't do it at all.

When you a young kid at that age at that time, and you know that you got talent as far as hip hop, you wanna be on the radio, that's the first thing. So we was more or less infatuated with just havin' a song on the radio, you know? Before our careers even launched it was more or less about lettin' everybody know, 'Staten Island? You got good emcees there.'

It's true, the Shaolin and the Wu-Tang, could be dangerous.