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.

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.

If you go to a college campus and you do stop and frisk, you're going to find a lot of drugs there too.

Homosexuality in hip-hop is an extension of homosexuality in the black community. The black community is very, very conservative when it comes to homosexuality, and I don't mean conservative in the good way, like we're saving money. I mean very intolerant.

The way I see it, if people truly love my music, they will support me in some way down the road.

Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the radio, you're at a loss.

You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.