More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.

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

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

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

If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.

More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.