When we say, 'Look, Donald Trump was a friend to hip hop back in the day; so was Bill Clinton,' It doesn't mean that because he was a friend to hip hop back in the day, that the same Bill Clinton wasn't at the lead of this mass incarceration of African Americans today.

I came from the heart of the ghetto - there ain't no suburbia in me.

Self-management and self-control are the keys to advanced knowledge, and both are difficult to learn without a sense of your own cultural identity.

This is the problem with the United States: there's no leadership. A leader would say, 'Police brutality is an oxymoron. There are no brutal police. The minute you become brutal you're no longer police.' So, what, we're not dealing with police. We're dealing with a federally authorized gang.

The only time you had blacks, whites, and Latinos jamming together was in hip-hop. It's an unsung history.

Illiteracy causes violence. If you don't have enough words in your vocabulary, you can't even seek your way out of a situation.

If you vote for evil, you are evil yourself.

When you seek to do something, if you don't know the whole game plan, you're usually going to work against yourself.

I'm here to inspire young people to be part of the most magnificent culture on earth: hip-hop.