I always tried to manage my money smart.

Do what you do don't let the label tell you to do something else.

Hopefully we get back to the raw essence of hip hop again.

Not follow me but follow the lyrics.

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.

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

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