I like Bergen County because it's nice and quiet. It's beautiful, and I can get to the city way quick.

It feels like one family - JAY-Z's one call away for any advice, any questions. He's a real big homie.

I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.

I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.

I like The Smiths - I would love to do a song with The Smiths, because they are so sonically different.

I would take the jeepney all the way to Angeles City, and that's how I got introduced to break dancing.

Coming from the Philippines, my whole goal was to support my family and have a better living situation.

Let me do five of those, and then some slower ones for those kids that can't understand what I'm sayin.

You can't candy-coat an unsweetened world. But you can get together and make it a better place to live.

It's kinda hard bein humble in the belly of the struggle, Doin things that probably get you in trouble.

To be honest, sometimes I get in my shell, and I don't want to do stuff, and sometimes I'm real active.

I'm happy to see somebody from the urban community that could go out and make a half-a-billion dollars.

I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things.

Rappers should just be able to perform what they create and satisfy the people that like and love them.

My mother, my father, I love 'em, I hate 'em, wish god I didnt have 'em, but thank god that he made 'em

I don't want to be in the spotlight so bad that I'm going to sell my soul, or sell my creativity short.

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

I wonder why I never learn my lesson. It's feeling like the second chance and it's the first impression

Look at where I landed, you would think I planned it. I'm just doin me and you can never understand it.

All so convinced that you're following your heart cause your mind don't control what it does sometimes.

You know how I play it, better safe than sorry 'stead of searching for substance at every single party.

Time heals all and heels hurt to walk in, but they go with the clutch that you carry your lip gloss in.

Dedicating time when I really can't afford to be I'll provide protection if you open up the door for me

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.

I wasn't trying to be famous when I started making music. I mean, that wasn't the first thing I wanted.

Sometimes you almost have to laugh to keep from crying to deal with the pain associated with the 'hood.

I notice, a lot of white rappers sometimes, they'll feel like they have to be, like, almost aggressive.

Ignorance is venomous and it murders the soul, spreading like a virus, running rampant, out of control.

I move through the third world, my third eye's the guiding light / Invite the fight, we all die tonight

I'm raspy, and if I wasn't a smoker, I'd still be raspy. My pops has a raspy voice, and my grandfather.

I love hitting the stage and I don't think I could trade that for sitting in the basement making beats.

I listen to other artists, cuz its like every artist wanna hear something that they never heard before.

Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party.

The single most important lesson I learned is that black people are the cause of black people's demise.

I just want to paint that picture of Chicago that everybody's missing, and I just want to rap about it.

I'm here to make people feel like they can release stress, have a good time, be positive and live life.

I hope we go down in history for being something more than just another famous act that got ripped off.

I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him.

In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama, and the United States of America.

I am not one to brag but to tell you the truth mang, I am funkier then a locker room after a hoop game.

I listen to a lot of different kind of music. A lot of weird-ass music, like weird-ass, old Portishead.

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.

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.

I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political.

So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

See I need you in my life for me to stay No no no no no I know you'll stay Oh no no no no don't go away

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