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.

I've always tried to insert consciousness and spirituality in my records, interpreting the writings of all cultures and religions and how they apply to life in modern times.

Back then all I cared about was rhyming and making beats. That was my trade, my hobby.

It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at.

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.

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

I saw a lot when I was young. The first time I got arrested I was twelve years old.