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

I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.

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

All I did was take my time, figure out where I made a lot of mistakes and try not to make them no more.

I doubt if you get another Wu-Tang Clan. That might be harder than getting the new Jackson Five

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.'

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