“Linguine linguistics that left my verbal essence saucy, Send a message, leave you sleepin’ next to headless horsey.”

I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.

My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I’m one of those. I don’t even listen to music in the car, all I listen to is sports talk.

As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.

I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.

Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.

It’s an accompaniment to life. It’s not something that I do to rap; I smoke when I open my eyes…I don’t know any other feeling.

I’ll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever.

I would say I started rapping because my friends were doin it.

I like every girl. Every kind of girl that there is, I like.

All I believe in is food and myself.

Working in kitchens with Mexicans you always listen to the Spanish channel and that’s what I use. Whenever I cook I think of Spanish music, so I always have to listen to some sort of salsa. It gets your body going.

My new shorty got a gymnastic back, ’87 emerald green on a classic Jag. She had the cleft palate, I ordered chef’s salad; She had the club foot, with that little arm, I couldn’t help but laugh…she ordered Chicken Parm.

I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.

Lamb is such a beautiful thing.

I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.

Strictly cop and go’s until we laid in the Galapagos Eating tacos, higher than an opera note

Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it’s attainable. I didn’t do it any other way than through hip-hop.

When I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it’s not up to people’s expectations anymore, its still here, and that’s says a lot.

N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new – that’s what New York is about… New.

I think – a lot of times in hip-hop, especially – artists get kind of pigeonholed into being ‘the guy,’ and it’s kind of limiting in a way.

When I listen to hip-hop, I listen to Just Ice, Boogie Down Productions, Ultramagnetic MCs.

It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.

When I need bread, I grab the toaster and stick niggas for they crumbs.