What I'm slowly realizing is that I believe that most of us felt that we could relax a little bit after November 2, 2008, because of the progress and….

The only mofos in my circle are people that I can learn from..

I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic. And you know, I do….

It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing..

I keep moving through time and time keeps moving through me. And through that process, life takes shape. The question is what shape it is. I'm not th….

We have to get back to "we." It's important to get back to "we" not just "I.".

It was absolutely killing me that I've spent the first 25 years of my life tryin' to avoid bullets. That was always the main concern. Don't go out la….

I cannot keep a girlfriend longer than seven months. I have 12 jobs. I don't have time for my personal life. I'm fully aware that this is the sacrifi….

It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time..

Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years..

There's no such thing as success on an isolated level..

When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life..

Time will tell. Time is always telling. Time never stops telling..

My life's goal is to find a happy medium for sampling to be not only legal but for the right parties to benefit from it. There have to be sampling la….

I want to be as healthy as I can be so I can make it past 50; make it past 60 and make it past 70..

According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 a….

I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger uni….

I don't think crack happened by accident. I'm part conspiracy theorist, because you can't develop something that dangerous and have it not be planned..

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until yo….

Reagan's neglect of the inner city is responsible for hiphop. Hiphop is created thanks to the conditions that crack set: easy money but a lot of work….

In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the….