2Pac wrote about life threatening situations after being shot so often, it made it seem like he was obsessed with it. He even wrote music and material that he left behind after he died that made reference to him dying already. I think the significance in that ties back to us knowing that that's our fate.

What I do is take the jewelry back to the jeweler and they redo the jewelry with the same gold from the last thing.

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.

Even the worst that happens to you can be converted into GOLD if you are clever enough.

I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster.

Eating well was something I learned as I started to be successful and had to travel and perform concerts, which are an intense cardio workout.

Either you are a victim or you victimize someone and in the hood it's no holds barred. The kid in the schoolyard that doesn't want to fight always leaves with a black eye.