My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up. I don't feel like I'm special in that. I feel like that's everybody.

People didn't really take white rappers seriously until Eminem, because he was better than everybody. Like female emcees, you need to be like Lauryn Hill or Nicki Minaj or killing everything before somebody takes you seriously.

I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.

And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.

Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz.

Life without knowledge is death in disguise.

What's more condescending and corny than someone telling you how much more money they have than you and telling you basically, 'I don't care about poor people,' which is a large part of what you hear of corporate hip-hop on the radio.