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

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.

With Prisoner of Conscience, the focus was - I've worked with Madlib, High Tech, Kanye West, J Dilla. I feel like I've worked with some of the greatest of all time. That's been overlooked. That's been overshadowed by the weight of the lyrics.

Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.

I'm spinning records and I look across the restaurant and I see somebody who looks Asian. And I'm like, "Yo, that looks like Yoko Ono." I'm like, oh, I can just meet - that's going to be great. Then I look carefully and I'm like, "That's not Yoko Ono, that's Bruno Mars." And it was Bruno Mars. That just happened recently. I was bugging out. Because that was totally not Yoko Ono at all.

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