I started studying in '85 and got knowledge of self and started spitting. What was going on was taking the understanding of what I was reading and applying it with my life and applying it with my rhymes.

A lot of reasons I didn't do records with people is because I never wanted their light to reflect on me.

What was once easy became confused and hard, which brings us back to the mystic question, who is God?

That's another thing yo rappers are scared to bring new styles out. There's so many different ways we can be flowing but everybody chooses to flow the generic way.

The older I get the wiser and more skillful I get.

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.

Self-esteem makes me super, superb and supreme