You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.
I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.
An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.
I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.
I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street.
A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.
The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.
You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.
Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!
So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.
The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.
I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.
If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.
I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.
I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.
