It's not just hip-hop that's dead. Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good.

I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at.

I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded.