I can think of no one more relevant and credible in the hip-hop community to build upon Def Jam's fantastic legacy and move the company into its next….

Which is the other reason hip-hop is controversial: People don't bother trying to get it. The problem isn't in the rap or the rapper or the culture. ….

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter..

Kurt Cobain OD'd on heroin before committing suicide, but he also OD'd on fame. Cobain was like Basquiat: They both wanted to be famous, and were bri….

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be And so I put this on my life Nobody or nothing will ever come between us And I promise I'll give my life.

[Banning marriage equality is] discrimination, plain and simple. It's really not about votes. It's about people. I think it's the right thing to do a….

Little brothers ring fingers get cut up to show mothers they really got em..

I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government..

Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a ….

Life is for living, not living uptight, see ya somewhere up in the sky..

Treat my first like my last and the last like my first and my thirst is the same as- when I came..

Remind your self. Nobody constructed like you, you style your self..

There's the gift, there's the spirit, and there's the work-all three have to come together. If one of those things is off, it can stop you from becom….

I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, i….

Difficult takes a day Impossible takes a week I do this in my sleep.

New York has a thousand universes in it that don't always connect but we do all walk the same streets, hear the same sirens, ride the same subways, s….

Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, peop….

Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing..

Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained..

All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be ab….

Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it.