I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man!

With rap, it’s a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take ’em the way they wanna take ’em.

You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can’t get into rap.

I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.

If there were no guns, we couldn’t talk about it… You turn on TV, you see soldiers marching with guns. We only talk about things that’s happening.

Hopeful dreams – even where crack kings’ and dope fiends feast. Dust from the ash and rubble; they shine like bright stars once the mic is gripped and the bars are spit.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

To me, its just a word, a word whose power is owned by the user and his or her intention. People give words power, so banning a word is futile, really. ‘Nigga’ becomes ‘porch monkey’...

I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.

What I like most about rap and hip-hop is its authenticity, and what this movie lacked was authenticity. … I wasn’t believing him as him. It’s not a disaster, but it’s certainly a missed opportunity.

I’m gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.

When hip-hop was born she had no commercial home, and was an invention of beautiful creativity. Born from a beautiful struggle, today she is mostly a ‘ratchet’ bitch spitting nonsense from her pimp’s mansion.

I think that rap is narrative, when it’s done right.

I’m a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!