I think all music - not just rap - has fallen into this very diluted, delusional state, where everyone's singing about money and having cars, and hav….

I'm like a monkey. You don't let go of one branch until you get a hold of the other..

It really really sunk into me when I went to Europe and they take rap so much more serious than we do here. That was the first time I ever heard rap ….

I always knew that I had to direct. That was something I'd wanted to do. Finally, I was just looking at the situation and I said, "I wanna document h….

If you get into crime you gotta know that everybody's a criminal and everybody's a liar, and everybody has the potential to backstab you, because it'….

With the invention of the blog and all this Internet stuff, everybody has an opinion; everybody has a voice. In fact, there was a time when the avera….

Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about..

If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis..

I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up..

Being in the military just lets you know how helpless you are. You could train forever but you're still at the mercy of someone in the Pentagon, or s….

When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit..

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

I couldn't possibly have lived all the things that Ice-T on the records lived..

A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living..

It's like a paradox. For one side, being popularized rap got better and the other side of it got worse. It's very pop and it's very different now. Wh….

I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to g….

When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers..

Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing..

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

I'm on the front line and I am a rapper..

People think I'll kill you if you make a joke. I compare it to Clint Eastwood. I've only seen Clint Eastwood in movies. You think if you make a joke ….