My kids are the most inspiring thing that pushes me. It used to be because they were born, and I had to take care of them. Now it's because my son raps, and he's better than me. So now I gotta keep up with him, you know what I'm saying?

The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

I think the biggest problem in our country is mass incarceration and the prison-industrial complex. From the Rockefeller drug laws to stand your ground to stop and frisk, all these are pointing people, especially and disproportionately black and brown people, towards the criminal-justice system. It's depleting whole generations of people.

It’s very seductive to focus on what you don’t like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do.

The way I see it, if people truly love my music, they will support me in some way down the road.

But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.

I don't care if Rick Ross is 40 years old -- he's a misguided 40-year-old person.