I don't like to give the sob story: growing up in a single-parent home, never knew my father, my mother never worked, and when friends came over I'd hide the welfare cheese. Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid. I didn't go to school. I couldn't deal.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

If that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine, I'm a break that birdie's neck.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.