I sacrificed a lot of things growing up.

My mother was a good woman.

When I was, like, 18, that's when I started to really take my own craft seriously and just noticed people were enjoying it. And when I put out my first mixtape, that's when I realized I could make this a career.

When I grab the microphone, I am the greatest rapper, musician, and artist that ever lived, ever, in the entire universe - but when I put that microphone down, I am a man with so much to learn, personally and professionally.

I want to go to - what's that hot country with a lot of money? - Dubai.

I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

In 2008 we came perilously close to killing money, exposing in the process how out of date money's infrastructure has become.