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

I take pride in my sports knowledge. I take pride in everything I do. It’s part of me.

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.

That was my challenge then, how to make scratching still fun for someone who didn’t necessarily come to hear that. It was fun to develop that technique. And now in dance music – I’m still a hip-hop guy at heart, but I love dance music.

Damn it feels good to see people up on it.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

I’m Gone be the biggest thing In Hip Hop one day, mark my words.

There shouldn’t be any violence in hip-hop. You’re getting free clothes. Basically, it’s free money.

I always wanted to operate at the highest altitude, just in terms of hip-hop and the music.

Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.

I appreciate people who make hip-hop, the way A Tribe Called Quest and Lauryn Hill and KRS-One did it.