“I just like to be great at what I do, and it's just a simple mentality...” — Inspectah Deck Quote

“I just like to be great at what I do, and it's just a simple mentality. The hardest part for me is just making it rhyme.”

“My first album wasn't even the album that y'all hear as 'Uncontrolled Substance.' It was a totally different album... I had a whole different album.”

“We live in a world in which you'll be attentive for like thirty seconds and your attention span moves onto the next. So anything is really not much of long-term significance.”

“The hardest part is writing a song as a story. A song is so short and there are only so many words that every line has to hit. The words have to flow. You can't say certain words that sound weird next to each other, you can't repeat words too much.”

“The hardest part about making weight is getting to 155 or 156 - whatever you make - and you gotta wait four hours.”

“I have not had tragic incidences in my life that have rocked my personal being. The thing that really has been my biggest enemy in this world has been pressure. And people. People who I love. People who look at me differently. The pressure is tough, man. I'm not gonna lie. It's the hardest part. Easily.”