Every night I talk to God, but he don't say nothing back. I know he protecting me, but I still stay with my gat.

My grandparents went through a bad experience themselves; they invested money in a church and got burned - the pastor had his own agenda - and my grandfather lost interest in the church after that. That was when I had the option to not go. 'Grandpa ain't going; I'm gonna stay with Grandpa.'

When my son came into my life, my priorities changed, because I wanted to have the relationship with him, that I didn't have with my father.

The public is never wrong. When people don’t respond to what you do, they’re telling you something loud and clear. You’re just not listening.

If you don't have finances to jump on opportunites or at least room to support yourself while you're tryin to move into new situations then you can't even evolve.

When I fell in love with hip-hop, there was a terminology at the time called "battling." All that was just battling with other artists, but after Tupac and those incidents when it spilled into the street and turned into a negative situation, battling turned into a beef. A whole new dynamic.

In Hollywood they say there's no business like show business. In the hood they say there's no business like ho' business.