The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.

I listened to a mind joint, and I wanted to do my own version of it, and what you hear on my mixtape is my take on what the whole CD sounds like.

If you go to a college campus and you do stop and frisk, you're going to find a lot of drugs there too.

I started rapping because I wanted people to hear what I have to say, I want as many people to hear me as possible, and I do everything in my power to make that pop.

So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.

I look at the deejay thing as something - I'm good at it because I have my own music. I have enough rhythm to blend at this point.

A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.