During The 2008 Election, I Made Clear

Crack Offered A Lot Of Money To The Inner-city Youth Who Didn't Go To College. Which Enabled Them To Become Businessmen. I Know About Maybe Five People In The Entertainment Industry Who Did Their Peak Work As A Result Of Crack Usage.

Hip-hop Is So Much About Character And Caricature That People Just See You As A Character. Very Rarely Are You Flesh And Bone To People.

It's Easy For Me To Say, "oh Yeah, That's The Self-saboteur Move That Most Artists Pull Whenever They're Afraid."

At 25, My Idea Of Success May Have Been More Vain, Like, "i'll Be Good The Day That There's $20 Million In My Account And I Have This Particular House And The Wife And 2.5 Kids." But At 40 - And I Know It's Kind Of Silly Telling You Guys This - But As Long As My Metacritic Rating Stays Above 80, That's All I Care About.

My First Gig Was At Radio City Music Hall When I Was 13.