When you go to places like Gary and Detroit, you see the economic problem in this country and who it's really affecting.

I don't like rap that doesn't have a story behind it.

Drake makes some dope songs.

I still bump 'Smells Like Teen Spirit.' I used to listen to it before all my football games.

The Bears need to let me be GM.

The neck is not something you should have surgery on that much.

I'm a loyal dude.

I always knew that I would be some type of public figure, but I never knew that it would be rapping, 'cause my dad sang: I saw him deal with the ills of the music industry, just on the outside looking in.

I played wide receiver in high school; then I went to college at Ball State and played safety.

I like A$AP Rocky and his stuff - Kendrick too.

He's been my number one influence. If you say Tupac didn't influence you, then you don't really need to be rapping because nobody evokes that kind of emotion on a track like Tupac does.

I tried to watch 'Inception,' but I fell asleep.

I wasn't fully aware of the things that Madlib did musically, but my manager put me up on game. I'm not gonna act like I was a Madlib head when I wasn't. I didn't understand a lot of it at first. But it opened my mind to some things, and it's me bringing that gangster element to things that he does. It's like a perfect marriage.

I study my competition for at least an hour a day. I get on the Internet, I look at what they doing, and then I look at ways to defeat them. I know their mixtapes track-by-track. I know some of their lyrics.

Ninety percent of the general public aren't gangstas, so all of the rappers aren't going to be gangstas.

A lot of improvisation and freedom went into 'Pinata.'

Madlib isn't a beatmaker, he's a producer.

'Kind of Blue' is one of the best records of all time. Miles' use of space is something rap fans can definitely appreciate. Sometimes you have to let the track breathe and throw a melody in here and there. He never did too much on 'Kind of Blue.' It's the perfect vibe.

I've been interested in basketball since I was a little kid - like, 3. The Bulls were my team. If you grew up in Gary, the Bulls were everybody's team.

Probably dancing to Cassie's 'Me & U' - That's my guilty pleasure.

When everybody goes left, I'm gonna go right most of the time.

You've got a lot of Tupac clones, but I don't think I'm one of them. I just think I give people a little piece of the feeling he gave them.

I'm from Gary, Indiana, and everybody's damn near at the poverty level. It's a rough city to grow up in, and it's a modern-day ghost town.

Nobody else was saying what he said on air, and sometimes he pushed the envelope when he said the newest Jay Z line with a Michael Jordan highlight. But Stuart Scott was an artist.