No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.

Once we revolutionize the music industry, then we can revolutionize our communities and everything in the world, 'cause what happens is, the communities are listening to the music.

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

When you're talkin' about a great man, you're not talking more than one person. It's not about how many people are followin' you, it's about the fact that you're a great man, that's all it's about.

If you go in the ring and box and you're angry, you're gonna lose the match.

It will be true work that the kids can follow, as opposed to a facade of you doin' something, and you're doin' nothing.

At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure.