There are songs and artists now who are trying to do the same thing: be honest to their experiences.

If you see yourself reflected in art, you feel validated.

We need to do stuff we've always done, even though you might not like it.

All the songs are pieces to the puzzle. They each represent something different. So it's really difficult to say one song represents the album.

Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect with their tribes.

Hip hop has evolved, thankfully. Kids are making music that is important to their lives and outlooks.

Every piece of music is not for everybody.

There is no good or evil, there is only power and those too weak to weak it.

Remember that when an employee enters your office he is in a strange land.

I could go back in the direction I had come from, or I could go forward in the direction I intended to go.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

A ton of athletes, even if they know your name, pretend they don't.

A committee is an animal with four back legs.

My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with a lot of other immigrants.

The million, million, million ... to one chance happens once in a million, million, million ... times no matter how surprised we may be that it results in us.

I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much.