One of the things about powerful people is they have the ability to make it look easy..

Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls..

I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record..

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting..

You could be a Green Beret and a kid could jump out from behind a building and hit you with a rock. No matter how tough you become in the military, t….

You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system..

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a working man, a quiet, blue-collar dude..

Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't….

With acting, you have to take it seriously because the other actors are putting in a lot of effort - and if you say, 'I'm just bullshitting here', it….

I think what's happenin' is that, with the overflow of music, it's been diluted. There was a time when people would go search out underground records….

The rock'n'roll lifestyle really is available to anybody that's got money. Honestly. Once you get money, if you interview a hundred people with money….

I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing..

Redemption means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. So I think a lot of people….

There's a point where a cop pulls you out of that car and starts abusing you or beating on you and at that moment he is no longer within the law..

in the mornin' po-lice at my door Fresh adidas squeak across the bathroom floor Out the back window.. I make a escape Don't even get a chance to g….

What's bad for the culture is wack rappers that get held in high regard like they're some great thing because it's the flavor of the month, but every….

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong..

You know, the radio never wanted you to speak about anything, so the music is kinda influenced by the hands of the radio which wants to homogenize it….

The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic..

Hip-hop is the fountain of youth. You just don't grow up if you were there. My son's 20. I'm on the same channel he's on. We wear the same clothes, w….

Anybody who speeds thinks they can outsmart the cops..