If you are a good giver, you will be great getter. The less you need, the more you attract.

The pain that's created by avoiding hard work is actually much worse than any pain created from the actual work itself. Because if you don't begin to work on those ideas that God has blessed you with, they will become stagnant inside of you and eventually begin to eat away at you. You might seem OK on the outside, but inside you will be ill from not getting those ideas out of your heart and into the world. Stalling leads to sickness. But taking steps, even baby steps, always leads to success.

I applaud what the Oscars are doing to promote diversity. I think it's great.

Whatever you chase will run away from you. So, stop chasing success and realize you already have it all.

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

Most artists are making as much money now as they could have made... in the heyday of Def Jam [when the] Beastie Boys would sell 10 million records or DMX would sell 6 or 7 million records. Those records are one thing, but then all the other ways to exploit the emotional relationship between artist and community is so much greater that I would guess that they're making as much or more money than they could have ever made.

Hip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop.