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I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.

Rap was my drug.

I've been rapping since 1979.

I feel like I'm doing something in Atlanta that nobody ever did as far as rap. If it happens to end up on the top 40 or the pop charts, it doesn't mean I meant to go pop. It's just where the music took me. It started at the bottom, and it rises.

When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers.

I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.

I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.

I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.

I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been something I was saying for a long time.