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

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.

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

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

I want to do an album with Steven Seagal.

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

People also respected my culinary acumen and my intelligence, and that was their whole thing.