As you keep shooting the ball, you become a better basketball player.

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.

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.'

I consider myself a genius because, when you talk about anything and everything, you a genius to me. It's just about makin' it fire on top o' more fire.

Soul music has so many great artists who put their thing down. That's important.

A star's the work - the work ethic you put into the business, and the people you excite. We only wanted to excite only a few people at that time, which was some o' the emcees that was hot that was in the game.