I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.

What makes critics dictate what is cool and what is not. What gives them the pass to say that their opinion on music or movies or anything is what should be cool and what shouldn't. I don't think it should be up to one person.

Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.

It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.

This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen.

I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?

Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.