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.

Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia, any place in Asia, Germany, Africa, it becomes something where you can still go and work. Hip hop is an import culture. We're spoiled by it here. It's homegrown.

Love is blind, you just see bright light

Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.

Life without knowledge is death in disguise.

Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.

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