Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero, it speaks the language that people speak on the streets.

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 tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.

They ask me what I'm writing for - I'm writing to show you what we're fighting for.

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

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.

If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.