Back in the days when I was a teenager, Before I had status and before I had a pager, You could find The Abstract listening to hip-hop, My pops used ….

Ayo, shout out to Mobb Deep, the Extra P Busta Rhymes, De La, the J Beez, so don't sleep.

I have a very connected history with Bilal. I heard his demo years ago. I heard all of the magic instantly. He's a master at interpretation of song..

We got to stay awake for all these lizards and snakes; Some of them come as friends, some of them come as Jakes..

When I watch films now, theres more of a musicality to the way the film are written..

I like music with soul and passion and the good of humanity. As long as it has those things, I'm all the way in..

So pay attention, it's not hard to decipher, And after the horns, you can check out the Phifer.

Rap is not pop, if you call it that then stop....

We got to mediate our greedy levels, Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil..

One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations..

In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista..

I'll have you weak in the knees that you could hardly speak, Or we could do like Uncle L and swing an ep in my Jeep..

You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story..

Rock and roll to the beat of the funk fuzz Wipe your feet really good on the rhythm rug If you feel the urge to freak, do the jitterbug Come an….

You never know: rain, sleet, hail, snow, See you gotta accept that's how things go. Prepare for the rainy day, or the sun's glow, But there's clou….

There's divinity within because we come from the divine, A force that's not seen, but you feel it every time: When the wind blows, and the world tu….

The thing that men and women need to do is stick together Progressions can't be made if we're separate forever.

With the black male as a teenager, where you're coming from the ghettos and that kind of stuff, you've got to assert yourself, be macho, not let anyb….

To be honest I'm not going to sell dreams like everybody else does and say, "Sure, it can be changed." I don't want to seem like a pessimist, but not….

Funky like your grandpa's drawers, don't test me We in like that, you're dead like Presley.

Shorty, let me tell you about my only vice: It has to do with lots of lovin', and it ain't nuttin' nice..