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

They ask me what I'm writing for - I'm writing to show you what we're fighting for.

Once you're signed to a label you compromise.

I was always rhyming and doing it for the love before I found out I was gonna have children and when I found out, doing it for the love wasn't enough.

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

I gotta be dope first. I gotta be appealing to your senses, and to what you like first. Then the message happens. Then you relate to the message.

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