Every time someone come out with an album don't change the whole style up but don't do what they are expecting. Surprise them.

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.

There is still consciousness in hip hop.

I always had an intelligence with me, I was always in the streets, I was always trying to do good. I was always looking for something to guide me. In the beginning church wasn't it.

Now it seems like hip hop belongs to the people you see in the videos and radios. So I want to give it bring it back to the hood, make a statement for NY to put us back in our proper perspective, and of course let them know that Ra still spits fire.

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

We lost the connection between the entertainment world and the neighborhoods.