“I've never been a mega-star. I'm more of a tastemaker of hip-hop. I tr...” — No I.D. Quote

I've never been a mega-star. I'm more of a tastemaker of hip-hop. I try to be more of an ambassador for the era of hip-hop that I came in.

I am the guy that, if you catch me saying something, I don't do the, 'Don't tell anybody I said it.' If I said it, I said it. I'm gonna stand right here and say it again to whoever - the end. What's the trouble? Where's the problem?

Don't ever judge anybody. You don't know who anybody is, period... You gotta humble yourself. Just because you are where you are, it doesn't mean you aren't talking to someone great.

Trophies or no trophies, we are all just striving to do some really good art and help people's lives with it.

I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future.

People say I haven't accomplished anything, but I feel like I've done a lot. I'm an ambassador for the Cybersmile Foundation, which is an anti-bullying organization.

Plan International protects the rights of children and young women, and I'm an ambassador for the 'Because I Am a Girl' campaign.

Traditionally, diplomacy was done in an environment of information scarcity. Ambassadors would send back telegrams to foreign ministries, comfortable in the knowledge that their views of a country would be the only source of information the minister would see.