Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or Eminem or Biggie Smalls to remind us about it - and thank God.

We have to truly become a united people of the United States of America, and divisiveness cannot make that happen.

Heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl.

Mama gives you money for Sunday school, you trade yours for candy after church is through.

I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.

You've got to remember that 25 is a great time because, you know, you're passed that 21 thing and it's a high point, a high peak, in life where you're old enough to say what you have discovered, but you're still open to discovering more.

I'm too high, but I ain't left the ground.