I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff.

Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.

More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.

I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.

I'm gullible. I think people mean what they say.

Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.