"I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I'm a big fan of Common. I'm a big fan of Scarface; I'm a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to... well, there are a lot of people's music that I respect. I don't know who I will collaborate with, but there's a great chance of something happening."
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"Big up to Flex. Stop taking so much cizock in his mizouth."
"I used to carry a notebook to the studio. I don't do that no more 'cause I don't have the time to write anywhere but right there in the studio on the spot. So when you hear my stuff, know that I wrote it in the studio."
"No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives."
"There was a lot of negative that was put on rappers for using the word, and I feel like we're just misunderstood. Most of us are; some of us is just plain wack."
"I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery."
"I set it off with my own rhyme / cause I'm as ill as a convict who kills for phone time"
"I used to keep a dictionary and work with it and then I realized there are more words that exist in the English language than there are in this dictionary."
"Props is a true thug's wife."
"I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners"
"The big stars in rap, they were too big, so when my rap generation started, it was about bringing you inside my apartment. It wasn't about being a rap star; it was about anything other than."
"People afraid of criticism but I always put myself in a sacrificial position,they been know I ain't just rappin for fame"
"Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe."
"I live in L.A. because my kids do. Home is where my kids are for me."
"My first record - it was 1991. I was 16 years old. My first album came out when I was 20. So, I've been here that long and I still have the passion to do it."
"I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat."
"I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at."
"Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand."
"Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded."
"I'm sure we're gonna meet some bumps in the road, but if it's meant to be it will happen."