When You First Start Off, You See

At 25, My Idea Of Success May Have Been More Vain, Like, "i'll Be Good The Day That There's $20 Million In My Account And I Have This Particular House And The Wife And 2.5 Kids." But At 40 - And I Know It's Kind Of Silly Telling You Guys This - But As Long As My Metacritic Rating Stays Above 80, That's All I Care About.

The Only Mofos In My Circle Are People That I Can Learn From.

I Was One Of Those Skeptics That Thought That Yoga Was For Kooks. Now I'm On A Very Strict Regimen. You Know, I Work Out. That's Another Thing I've Learned Relaxin', Sleep, Yoga. I Didn't Know That That's As Crucial As Going Hard, As Workin' Hard, As Exercising Hard. I Never Knew. I Thought That, "okay, I Gotta Be At The Gym Like Five Hours Everyday Going Balls To The Wall." And What My Yoga Instructor, What My Trainer, What They're Trying To Teach Me Is That, "no, It's Sleep." That's Important. That's Just As Important As Workin' Out.

What I'm Slowly Realizing Is That I Believe That Most Of Us Felt That We Could Relax A Little Bit After November 2, 2008, Because Of The Progress And The Spirit That It Took To Get Barack Obama In The White House. And What We Didn't Realize, Is That Was Really The Beginning. That Was Really The Beginning Of The Struggle And Not The End Of A Struggle, To Come From Colonial Times Through Slavery, Through The Jim Crowe Laws, Through The Civil Rights Period To The White House As, Like A Point A/point B Journey. Point B Of Course Being The End.

Hip-hop Is So Much About Character And Caricature That People Just See You As A Character. Very Rarely Are You Flesh And Bone To People.