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.

I just want to be remembered as a dope MC. As somebody who really covered a lot of ground and became internationally known.

You know the things I went through as a youngster, coming into the business, all the good, the bad and the ugly that came. I'd had a rough life. I grew up single parent. My mom, she was like a father to me.

You know the steez; you know my whole program. Brothers from the No-Lands, all we want is the G's guns and grams.

In order to be one of the greats, you've got to study the greats.

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

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.'