I kind of backed into rap music. I thought I was going to do comic books or graphic art.
Hate is indeed self-destructive, and this is what real Hip Hop must avoid at all cost.
Why isn't there any 50-year-old MCs killing it? I'm 46. Am I the only one? I can't wait to get to 50. I'm going to let everybody know it! I'm going to wear a shirt that says 'I'm 50.'
I'm the most humble rapper in the industry.
Violence on the community stops when the soul matures.
Graffiti art brings you back to your human skills - your spirit and what your being is really about.
When you know your self-worth, and you read and you ask questions and you study and you travel, you become free.
Record companies feel they are the culture. Hip-hop has to begin to define, protect, and promote itself, and that's why we founded the Temple.
I flew everywhere for the first 10 years of my career, and I started to not like commercial transport. I just don't feel safe.
Educate yourself, because this society is geared to have us hate each other. The longer we hate each other, the more we can't come together as humanity and look at the knuckleheads screwing it up for everybody.
I mistakably paid respect and condolences to the wrong Beastie Boy member King Ad-Rock when it should have been MCA. In light of this, I am redoing the song 'Hip Hop Speaks From Heaven' and I am pulling the original version off of my digital release. Historical accuracy is extremely important to me, so I accept all responsibility for this error.
There is no forgiveness, justice, or healing on any level when hate is involved.
When my time is up in hip-hop, it's going to remain what Afrika Bambaataa thought it was supposed to be. It's going to remain what Kool Herc thought it was supposed to be; what Wu-Tang Clan sees it as; what Outkast sees it as; what Snoop Dogg sees it as. People are trying to forget that brand of hip-hop.
There has always been a conscious effort to destroy any upliftment of the black race, whether that be physically, mentally, psychologically, morally, culturally, or economically.
Rap is no longer a pastime; this is a worldwide profession.
When I was about 15 years old, I began to embark on an MC career but also to study philosophy with an emphasis on theology.
Maybe I'm the prophet of hip hop for real. Maybe I do come with some kind of divine principle behind me, because I know that every battle I've ever had I've always won.
I have to put a business model together because certain businesses are approaching me as a legend, as if I'm on my way out. Same goes for the way I get presented on the VH1 Hip Hop Honors and BET. I get lifetime achievement awards because of who I am and what I've done, but they want to put me in a place, as if I'm on my way out.
Everything God wants you to know is already written in your heart.
Radio has always been just disgusting.
