Going back about 10 years ago, the only thing a black kid could do to get out of the ghetto was being a sports star. Now we can add music to that, which is a good achievement in itself.
I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.
The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.
It's okay for the President to start a war in Iraq, but it's not okay for me to talk about what I see around me in the ghetto.
We want to make everybody mad enough to look at the ghetto right in their own state, not just to look at the middle-class and the rich areas.
We were just expressing stuff that happens in the ghetto, just being like reporters.
Seeing Jay Z's just a great example of somebody who comes from a ghetto to rise to where he's at. I think... he done a great job.
I was only 20, 21. I was basically going to college to get me out of the ghetto. A friend suggested I try stand-up.
