People give out compliments because it's polite.

It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to musicians.

In reality, I know I'm not hurt directly by sexism; however, my life is made less because of it, so I started thinking about the fallout from relationships in which people feed off each other.

I thought there were too many songs about people's personal lives.

A lot of people heard about gin and juice for the first time from Snoop Dogg, but it was nothing new in rap music, and it was nothing new in the black community.

When I was five years old, me and my cousin got into a fistfight because when "That's the Way (I Like It)" came on the radio, he said, "That's my song," and I said, "No, that's my song."

In high school, everybody rapped. You just pounded on the table.