A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail.

Hip-hop is a vehicle.

I have a luxury of people coming to see me whether I play for the crowd or not. I don't take that lightly.

I just got a new manager. He's like, "So what do you want to do with the deejay thing?" I'm like, "The deejay thing for me is more my hobby." It's great when you can supplement your income, when you have a weekly or something, it's fun. It's really a hobby, because I don't want it to take away from what I do, which is emceeing.

Coltrane had a sax, Dale Earnhardt drives a race car and everybody has their tools.

Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half.

But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.