When you start to really travel and you get to these abstract like places in the world, you would see certain people's names. It seemed like we could….

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out..

I like crime movies where the crime is so incredible that, attractive as it seems, you don't wanna do it because it's just too dangerous..

There's people out there with nuclear bombs and yet we've got all these politicians trying to make a political platform based on a record. Isn't it r….

I'm a far cry from politically correct, because I don't really care what the political views are. I don't care what the people say. I'll say my opini….

A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on ….

I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace..

I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week..

Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well..

If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. ….

I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show..

There is no such thing as a normal family so don't trip off it, just deal with it..

I was doing the wrong thing, at the time I thought I was doing the right thing. It's like if you're dealing with somebody who is high on drugs, they ….

Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he does memorize it, he just doe….

When we say a rapper, a rapper can say a rhyme. But an MC can rock a party..

My father died early. My mother died early. I started hanging with the gangs. I'm on the streets; I'm committing crimes. And the music came along, an….

Diet food is for lazy people..

I look at my career and I feel I have the potential to maybe mature into a Samuel Jackson-type older cat, and people will still respect me and say 'Y….

When I got a chance to rap, I just busted my ass. When I got a chance to act, I busted my ass. Anytime I get a chance. I'm not wasting time. I won't ….

I hate to get on the racial thing because that's something I've always been totally against. But the problem with the media is that they think that t….

You've got the Wall Street situation, the sub-prime situation. You've got a black president. We've got wars. We've got unemployment. But the music do….