I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.

It was important to me to go back to the grungy, because all of a sudden you get excited again, 'cause there's another whole dimension of 'Clef that you wasn't expecting to hear.

I haven't accomplished nothing yet - I have a long way to go.

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

What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.

When you enter the realm of politics, you don't enter it because you want to be popular. When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song.

My father being a Caribbean minister, one day I stole the radio. The radio that I stole, I took it to school, showing off how big this boom box was and how bad I was at the time. Once my father figured out where I left the radio, he then got his belt and he walked me, he beat me all the way to where I had hid the radio, and with the boom box.