If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything.

On Sundays I give the sermons like my dad used to give. I utilize it as a revolutionary tool, as a thinking tool, as a tool where I can recruit people, DM them, and give them information that I feel that they need going forward.

The thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.

Once you're done in hip-hop, you're done.

The first thing you must learn is to always treat a man and a woman with total respect and honor, 'cause if you do that, the legacy you will leave behind will be work.

It's important, when you see darkness, to understand that there's light ahead of that, and I'm the living testimony of that, you dig?

A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.