The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny..

I never know if the person I'm shaking hands with is coming to kill me. That's something you have to live with when you cross the lines..

Everybody is doing you a favor when you're doing a documentary. You can't pressure them into it..

As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it..

You can't get what you want all the time in life..

I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the ….

I'm not going to allow anybody to hold a badge up over me or a cross or any other power symbol and say I'm going to kill you and you're just going to….

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut..

When I recorded my first album, my ego didn't let me believe that what I was gonna say on the mic, anyone would really care about. But then when I fo….

I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my m….

I'm very much against the anonymity of bloggers and social media. I just hate it and I think it's really cowardly..

A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself..

Now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, "Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation." Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'ca….

You can't just sing the song and live another life, you know. It's really difficult now because that's not what it's about. It's pop and pop just say….

I'm afraid because some police are way out of control. My true feeling with police is this: If they do their job, there's no problem..

The more you try to suppress us, the larger we get..

Arnold Schwarzenegger blew away dozens of cops as the Terminator. But I don't hear anybody complaining about that..

An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party..

I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is diff….

You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly….

I'd say people are victims of circumstances and they're limited to the opportunities that they see. Even though there might be more opportunities, yo….