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.

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

Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever's the best. So before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.

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

Life without knowledge is death in disguise.

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

You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.