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" I'm a fan of Jay-Z, from the negotiating table to the booth. "

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" Hip-hop has taken a lot of different routes throughout the years, man. I've been around since 1986. "

" The young kids out there doing their thing, I can't knock them. "

" My mother sang jazz and opera - she even performed at the Apollo on Amateur Night. "

" I always say a rapper is like a halfback in the NFL. You got about seven years, then it's a wrap. "

" My thing is, you have to let young artists be young artists. "

" I had a lot of respect for Prodigy. He brought the hood to the booth. When we were trying to shape this rap thing into something, he was one of the cats I respected for bringing the hood into the booth. "

" I love, you know, a lot of jazz, John Coltrane. "

" You come up, you love music, and then business interferes. "

" When I was in high school, the energy in hip-hop at that point was the park energy... I was just trying to develop my style at that point, and I think, when you're trying to find your style, you find yourself. "

" Eminem is a master. "

" Age don't count in the booth. "

" I started studying in '85 and got knowledge of self and started spitting. What was going on was taking the understanding of what I was reading and applying it with my life and applying it with my rhymes. "

" Subconsciously, Islam took over me, so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was. "

" Back in the day, rappers were 'bump bump bump ba bump ba bump.' They was rhyming like that, but I was like, 'bababa bump bump babum ba babump bababa bump.' "

" I can't look at TV without seeing something that's been influenced by rap. Even commercials for cereal. When I was small, I was a fan of cartoon characters - now the cartoon characters are rapping! "

" Everything I did on the 'Paid in Full' album and those first three albums, I wrote everything right in the studio. "

" Without no disrespect to any artist, there's a lot of degrading music out there as far as degrading the culture and degrading society as well. That's individuals that choose to make that kind of music. "

" I just appreciate the love that I get and support from hip-hop. "

" The golden age was when people were starting to understand what hip-hop was and how to use it. I was lucky to come up then. Everybody wanted to be original and have substance; it was somewhat conscious... There was an integrity that people respected. "

" My approach to writing rhymes went hand in hand with the music. I'd try to make different rhythms with my rhymes on the track by tripping up patterns, using multi-syllable words, different syncopations. I'd try to be like a different instrument. "

" When me and Eric did songs back in the day, we didn't go and sit down in front of no A&R. We made our album, and then, when we finished, we handed it in, and then we picked the best song for the first single. "

" I love what I live, and I live Islam, so I applied it to everything I do. I applied it to my rhymes, and I felt that I wanted the people to know what I knew. "

" Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music, man - it's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat. "

" People think the older you get, the wacker you get. I think the older I get, the better I get. "