No one likes to be treated like people in minority communities. What it's saying is that because you're poor, because you live in a neighborhood that deals with oppressed conditions, you deserve to be treated like a criminal. In our Constitution it says you have the right to live without illegal search and seizure.

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

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

I feel like your city - with hip hop in particular, because we're always beating our chest and shouting where we're from - your city is just as influential as your parents. Even the grimy, hardcore gangster rap from New York - KRS-One and Wu Tang, the stuff acknowledges it.

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

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

As an artist, I have to be a leader of my fans, not like follow them. Because if I chose to follow them, you know, they could do it.