You Can't Count A Man Out Because

I Think It's Harder To Make A Classic Now, Not Because Of What People Say, But Because Artists Now Are So Concerned With What People Say.

For My Hustlers, Here's Some Motivation: He Who Has Begun Is Half Done.

I Want To Sound Like An Instrument. I Want My Voice And My Words To Marry The Beat. I Go With The Rhythm Of It And The Words Start To Come To My Mind And Those Words Could Be Based On Things That's Been On My Mind For The Past Year, The Past Month, The Past Week, Whatever; I Write It.

Man, Me And Biggie Were The Biggest Artists In New York. When He Passed, I Was So Messed Up. My Attitude Was Messed Up About Him Dying. There Was An East-west Thing Back Then, And I Was In War Mode.

People Give Me A Better Understanding On Things That I Said, Or A Different Way To Look At It.