I'm just saying the producers and people who work on music are getting left out - that's when it starts getting criminal. It's like you're working hard, and you're not receiving. In any other business, people would be standing before Congress. They have antitrust laws against this kind of behavior.

If you want it, and you want to get it, then you've got to work hard for it, like Tupac was working hard for it.

I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

My first album was mainly dealing with street issues, and it was 'coded': it was called 'Reasonable Doubt.' So the things I was talking about... I was talking about in slang, and it was something that people in the music business was not really privy to. They didn't understand totally what I was saying or what I was talking about.

I keep working hard to show people they're wrong.