I still love old-school hip-hop, but there hasn't been a lot that I've taken from the new stuff..

So all hail the honorable, microphone phenomenal Persona is unbombable? Trust me son, I continue like a saga do, bringin' you the drama to allow y….

Standing at the bus stop sucking on a lollipop Once she gets pumping its hard to make the hottie stop.

People also knew me for putting people up to hip-hop, so people knew I was heavy into hip-hop. But as for cyphers and stuff in high school, I would n….

Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and th….

God sent me to piss the world off!.

Well I listened to mostly rock music, and I felt like hip hop was like an extension of rock music when it was done well. So energetically, again I fe….

It's for real though, let's connect, politic...ditto! We could trade places, get lifted in the staircases, Word up, peace, incarcerated scarfaces..

I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Ene….

When you a young kid at that age at that time, and you know that you got talent as far as hip hop, you wanna be on the radio, that's the first thing.….

Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more..

You wanna know my occupation? I get paid to rock the nation. I go to work..

Not only did we survive AIDS, Reaganomics, poverty, racism, gang violence, police brutality, substance abuse - not only did we survive that, we creat….

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. ….

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….

It's the repetitive thing that brings space. That's one of the things I love secretly about hip-hop. Jazz doesn't have that element. It changes every….

I gave you prophecy on my first joint, and y'all lamed out Didn't really appreciate it, 'til the second one came out.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop..

For me, growing up in hip-hop culture, it's all about having the next style, the new fashion, the new way to express yourself, the fly new beat. I ca….

We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise, Getting the big picture, and making it wallet-sized..

It does feel like sometimes that I'm the outcast. Hip-hop doesn't want to mess with me because I'm Christian and Christian music doesn't want to mess….