You gotta be careful and just learn from your mistakes.
You got to treat Mobb Deep different because our fan base is different. Our fan base is in the 'hood across the world.
You got a lot of fradulent rebels and revolutionaries who are really false prophets.
You can never go back to a time and try to recreate that sound, because that time is done.
With Mobb Deep, we have to agree on things. We have to agree that we want to use that beat or agree on the type of song we want to do.
When you are young and rebellious, you don't want to be in the house. You want to be on the block.
When we were making 'Juvenile Hell,' we were listening to the Jungle Brothers, Big Daddy Kane, Rakim, Biz Markie, A Tribe Called Quest.
When we signed to G-Unit, 50 made us sign the paper that says, 'You can't talk about nothing about me.' He makes everybody sign that.
When I was a kid, I used to love to play 'Dig Dug.' It was, like, this little dude, where he digs in the dirt and makes tunnels.
When I said, 'I'm only 19, but my mind is old' - at that time, when I said that line, I was 18.
We used to cut out of school and go to Coney Island to record songs almost every day.
We started writing songs like 'Shook Ones' and 'Survival of the Fittest' explaining our neighborhood, but more our personal lives.
We gotta keep our sound alive, that dark hip-hop.
We didn't have any problem with 2Pac. We liked his music.
To me, I got a bunch of haters. Mobb Deep - and Prodigy, speaking for myself - I got a bunch of haters.
There isn't just one black experience out here.
The sickle-cell got me where doctors said I couldn't play sports, I couldn't overexert myself.
The NYPD is just a branch of corruption connected to a giant, corrupt tree called the United States government.
The music is just real powerful when Mobb Deep and Nas work together.
That's what 'Hell On Earth' was about we felt that we were living in hell.
Sickle cell was my life before hip-hop. I ain't really have no life - that was it.
Premier came into the picture when were starting to make our own beats and all that.
Our style of hip-hop, our style of beats, our style of rhymes - you gonna give us burn. We gonna get our burn that we deserve.
Once I started writing, I realized just how much I really enjoyed it. I was kinda good at it, so I kept at it.
Nobody's unique. Everybody copies off of each other. Everybody wears the same type of stuff. Nobody's an individual anymore.
Nas is like King Queensbridge he's the man out there.
My kids know they can't make the same mistakes I've made. They've been through a lot with me always being on the road.
My favorite Eminem song is probably 'Lose Yourself' because I can relate to it a lot. That's how I feel every time I write a rhyme.
Music and physical activity goes hand in hand. Music and basketball, man.
Mobb Deep's music, we represent poverty. That's what made us. That's who made us. That's who brought us up.
