Now life is imitating art.

I try to keep myself out of the unnecessary bullshit.

Subconsciously, Islam took over me so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was.

I always wanted to kind of make the listener feel like it was them that I was talking about, or to the point that I could say the rhyme, and feel like it's them saying it.

Back in the day, music imitated life. Now it's the opposite way around: life is imitating music. It's like whatever the rappers say, people think that that's how we're supposed to be; but back then, we kind of looked at the streets, and we made music for that.

I had a little more freedom when I started sampling because you could actually do what you wanted to do.

If something comes at me of course I'm gonna handle my business but I'm not the type to provoke the bullshit so I don't really get a lot of that.