When I was trekking across Brooklyn, looking for MC battles - and there were plenty of them - I never dreamed I'd be at this podium.

I got mouths to feed, Unnecessary beef is more cows to breed.

I'm on a Mission, that niggaz say is Impossible, But when I swing my swords they all choppable, I be the body dropper, the heartbeat stopper, Child educator, plus head amputator.

Hip-Hop is my vehicle to scientific and universal enlightenment

Too many songs, weak rhymes that's mad long. Make it brief son: half short, twice strong!

I was always taught my do's and don'ts: For do's I did, and for don'ts, I said I won't.

Energy is felt once the cards are dealt With the impact of roundhouse kicks from black belts that attack the microphone like cyclones or typhoons I represent from midnight to high noon.

Strictly excel in what is excellence with grace

I won't hesitate to detonate, I'm short fused.

Where I come from, gettin visual is habitual...

So I don't only watch my back, I watch my front, Cause it's the niggaz who front, they be pulling stunts!

It’s been said that legends are those who shape change into greatness shaping change is one of the hallmarks of genius.

You never know the hurt others endure in this world behind the closed windows of their life, or the joy a simple act of kindness can bring.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

I do pauses, pauses work for me

God in the whizzing of a pleasant wind Shall march upon the tops of mulberry trees.

If chasing cool is important to you, you're an idiot!

Don't ever become so preoccupied by who you want to be that you forget to be who you are.

My newspaper job … is my identity.

I had just done something in TV, but my real love is theater. I had won this award and I was up at Yale, and I was happy because it came with money.

I am not bothered about fashion's speed-up. I find it quite exciting!