The work is the understanding of the people that you're speaking for. The further you get away from that, the further you are from the work.

Things don't really go that well when people get back together.

That's the crazy part about music, that you can just be someone and it means something.

People have an overbearing need to project their inward doubt and hatred and emotions onto the outside world.

I live to die; better that than to live a lie.

Rappers kinda look stupid sometimes. Most of the time. I'm pretty sure I look stupid too a lot.

Hip-hop culture is deeply rooted in the wrong things. Hip-hop is about drugs right now. It's more so about drugs - about selling drugs, about using drugs - it's bad for kids.