To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude..

My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons..

I never want to get to that level of poverty where taking a bath has to be a hot-pot experience..

Crack offered a lot of money to the inner-city youth who didn't go to college. Which enabled them to become businessmen. I know about maybe five peop….

I prefer to unwind by DJing. I learned that from Mike D from the Beastie Boys. After a show, he would DJ. Once I saw that, I wanted to do that. And n….

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people..

My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13..

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….

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..

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….

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….

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

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

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….

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….

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

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….

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….

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

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

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….