I loved the hood and still love the hood but I had to realize like Ra you a rapper now you're in the public eye.

The man is the captain, the women is the lieutenant and the kids are the soldiers. Like right now I'm not home with my kids. I teach my Wisdom so when I'm not there she takes care of the shorties. Just like the sun shines on the moon, and when the earth rotates and the moon is over here, and the sun is over here, and the sun and its shaded on the side we get light from the moon, showing and proving how we're symbolic to the stars and things of that nature.

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.

My whole thing is if it wasn't for people like ya'll and people like them I wouldn't be me. I love every minute of it.

The physical was never the best part of the body.

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

It might sound crazy but you put your money up and take out a little every week. You put yourself on a salary instead of getting $7,000 this week, $20,000 next week and $5,000 the week after that. Take a $1,000. You got your toys, you got everything and your money under your mattress. Break it down and have a salary to take care of you and your family and stretch that money.